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Start Over Collection place Northwest Coast, United States Donor Mrs. H. H. Bancroft
Hearst Museum object titled Canoe model, accession number 2-8864, described as Small wooden model of a canoe, painted red and black with figure of whale on either side of bow.
Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-8873, described as Small carved wooden figure of a human being with a carved animal headdress. Figure's hands clasped over drawn-up left knee; shell inset eyes; traces of red pigment. This figure has white and black eyes apparently made of shell. It is clasping the left knee in both hands, this leg being bent up.
Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-8874, described as It is a carved arm and hand with a human face and head resting in the partially folded fingers. Yew wood.
Hearst Museum object titled Zoomorph, accession number 2-8871, described as Carved wooden figure of a fish, ornamented in black and red (salmon). The interior of this figure is hollow and in it is a carved human figure. The fish was made in two pieces and glued together. Carving reference to story of fish which saved man by swallowing him and carrying him ashore inside its belly - Charles Brown, June 1964.

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