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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4049, described as Socketed, small stone adze encased in bone, with wooden handle, curved handle pierced in 2 places for rawhide thong binding.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 2-4287, described as Antler with groove for blade and socket. 2 perforations. Remnant sinew cordage. Specimen also marked 2-1170.
Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-4148, described as (Bodkin), ivory, encircling zigzag bands, suspension hole at top.
Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-4173, described as Made of antler. Single lobe at top.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 2-4041, described as Stone ax with wooden handle, stone lashed to handle with rawhide.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6329, described as Skin bag; white vellum-like leather with vertical strips of brown leather outlined in alternating red and white glass "seed" beads; round bottom, straight sides.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Baleen, accession number 2-4407, described as Folded baleen strips tied with sinew 2-ply cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Baleen skewers, accession number 2-4406, described as Neumann # 393. Folded baleen strips tied with sinew 2-ply cordage. 3 bundles tied together. Baleen stomach skewers tied with sinew placed in blubber bait to kill wolves, Es
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-6553a,b, described as Boots for man, knee height, tanned caribou skin uppers, fur out; semi depilated caribou rawhide soles. Decoration of alder-dyed caribou fringe down sides of uppers and horizontal band of caribou skin around boot top (for resistance to tearing). Constructed with sinew thread.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6366, described as With recurved tips, sinew backing, sinew cable over horn strips (3 strips: center and inside each curve). wood, slightly curved; cross lashed with sinew to within a short distance of the tips. Inupiaq names: qiluinaq, pisiksiq,

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