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Start Over Collection place Bethel, Bethel Census Area, Alaska Donor Robert E. Shore
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-72100, described as Basket, decorated and woven. Decorated with four sets of nine horizontal strips on one dyed red strip. Horizontal strips dyed purple and light grey-blue, possibly from berries. One dyed circumference strip around top of basket, reddish brown.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 2-72101a,b, described as Inuit Basket (a) and Lid (b), used for storage. Made from tundra reeds and grasses and seal guts for decoration. Small squares of red and purple dot exterior of basket. Lid fits snugly into basket.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drawing, accession number 2-72095.2, described as Drawing on matte; Eskimo with bow and arrow, quiver with arrows on back, fur-lined coat and leggings and snowshoes in the form of skis. Two sparse trees in background. Wrapped in tight plastic/saran wrap.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drawing, accession number 2-72096, described as Drawing on matte; Eskimo holding fish trap, fish trap construction; Eskimo dressed in fur-lined coat with hood, leggings and boots. Pile of fish on ground in front of him. He is emptying trap. Spear, net and trap insert are on ground and one sparse tree in background. Wrapped in plastic and tape.
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-72098, described as Alaskan Mask; hand carved wooden, painted white mask; feathers, one on each side, protruding and set next to eyes. Mask is in shape of a turtle with facial features painted on in blue and red and eye and nostril holes carved in. Legs of turtle decorated in red and blue paint, head same. Wooden handle curves around top half of mask, nailed in at sides.
Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-72099, described as Eskimo Necklace, made of orange, blue, white, green, light orange, black and deep red beads sewn onto blue felt circle. Neck strap made of alternating patterns of beads in orange and deep red sections divided by white and green beads. Circular pendant decorated with orange beads in the shape of diamonds with blue centers and twelve tassles of beads, alternating colors. Pendant surrounded by white and deep red beads.
Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-72097, described as Fish Trap, Eskimo, made of wood strips, cone-shaped and bound in spiral from bottom to top with hand-cut strips of wood. On inside of trap is another smaller conical wooden implement with spiral woodstrips and hole in center top. (See Drawing; Object 2-72096)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Wooden eskimo doll, accession number 2-72093, described as Wooden Eskimo Doll dressed in furs of tundra animals. Face is wooden with facial features carved and drawn on. Rest of head covered in fur hood lined in leather. Fur coat and leggings, boots with red sash at knee, fur and red and white beads for decoration in circle and line patterns. Fur is dark and light brown.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Wooden eskimo doll, accession number 2-72094, described as Wooden Eskimo Doll dressed in furs of tundra animals. Face is wooden with facial features carved and drawn on. Rest of head covered by fur hood of dark brown, gray and white fur lined in leather. Fur coat of white with dark brown spots, belt or skirt of dark brown and white alternating pattern. Brown fur leggings with leather straps around ankles and orange, green and white beads in circle and line patterns.

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