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Start Over Object class Plaited weaving Donor Benjamin Bristol Culture or time period Kodiak Eskimo
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5811, described as Leather, with embroidery of red skin and thread. U - shaped flat pouch of bleached deerskin trimmed with sealskin, red dyed applique strips, plaited sinew carrying cord.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5803, described as Light skin, with feather and colored string decorations. Gut fringed on 3 sides. Brown dyed gut (?) inserts, red wool trim attached with cross-stitch embroidery. Plaited sinew carrying cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 2-4496, described as Ivory. Separate barb tied to stem with 2-ply sinew cordage. Hook suspended from heavier plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6364, described as Decorated with feathers. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line. Feathers at proximal end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6365, described as Decorated with feathers. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line. Butt end found damaged during August 1988; repaired by conservator. Whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone tip with three unilateral barbs secured with Y-shaped braided sinew dart line; feathers at proximal end.
Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-4296, described as Iron. Eyes and lunate mouth excised on handle, concentric engraved circles on blade. Copper grip with snakelike head, fish tail, abalone inlay (some missing). Twisted sinew bound around grip over which is long coil of plaited human hair. Circle in handle said to be compass cut (fide JW).
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5815, described as Flat pouch with scraped white gut panels and transverse inset of specular hematite (more likely is molybdenite) - rubbed gut (black) and red - dyed gut. Braided sinew carrying cord with remnant of wool yarn. White skin (windpipe) trimmed with red and dark brown dyed leather and white seal fur and appliqued braid; plaited sinew string(c.70 cm) some blue, red and black wool yarn on edges, mixed with the plaited sinew.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Projectile point, accession number 2-6881, described as Barbed, caribou antler; from harpoon arrow. Plaited sinew line with red wool yarn ornamentation attached.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Snuffbox, accession number 2-3860a,b, described as Small carved snuff box; oval-shaped and painted sawtooth linear design with red pigment. Lid with plaited sinew handle.

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