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Start Over Media available legacy documentation Collection place Northwestern United States Loans S1987-1988 #16: California Academy of Sciences (September 11, 1987–February 19, 1988)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-2260, described as Made of dew claw of moose.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-2842, described as Trimmed with moosehair embroidery; sun-like design in yellow moosehair and wool embroidery on one face, many small circles with large circle on opp. face; buckskin; 2 buckskin tassels; red wool trim at top.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-7011, described as Carved wooden figure of wild goose with head over the back; white and black pigment; legs missing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-7008, described as Carved wooden figure of goose; 1 leg missing; orange bill and foot; stained body.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-7014, described as Carved wooden figure of a standing crane, one foot missing; red-stained body, black legs and bill; inlaid ivory (?) eyes.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-7012, described as Carved wooden figure of a duck, black and white pigment; one leg only.
Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6695, described as Bird skin (cormorant ?) parka, feathers out. No hood, straight calf-length hem. Decoration of red cloth and rabbit skin (?) tassels. Depilated, red skin band around hips with gut strips; reindeer and marten (?) on cuffs. Made with Cormorant skin (?), reindeer, marten (?), tanned hide, gut, rabbit skin, woven cloth, cotton thread, sinew thread (?). According to Eskimo consultant Ronald W. Senungetuk, July 1987: "Trim is made of caribou or reindeer, sea otter, ochre dyed bird skin and leather, decorated with red wool fabric, rabbit skin tassels and red band embellished with gut strips sewn above the bottom edge; reindeer hide and marten fur on cuffs. caribou or reindeer skin band turned inside out with seal''s throat skin overlay and danglers made of unborn or newly born fawn skin. Styling is Kodiak which may have been during or after Russian regime but it may be totally traditional." References: Birket-Smith, Ethno. Studies, Copenhagen, 1941, p.124; Hatt, Arct. Anth., 1969, p. 49.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Shoulder blade, accession number 2-2702, described as Moose shoulder blade, incised deer-like animal on each side.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Skin, accession number 2-14026, described as Bird, grebe. Attached to green cloth by buckskin cord. Mended with thread.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Zoomorph, accession number 2-210, described as Carved wooden figure of beaver; beaver is upright; unstained wood.

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