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Start Over Materials Sinew (material) Loans S2019-2020 #2: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (October 13, 2019–February 27, 2020)
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.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5804, described as Small and flat with scraped gut panels. Decorative horizontal strips of rubbed gut, red - dye gut, birdskin, brown gut fringe and reindeer hair embroidery. Long braided sinew cord with yarn tassel. Scraped stomach or intestines tanned white. Body made in 3 horizontal panels: one folded over (to make seamless bottom) and one added on each side to increase depth of bag. Several kinds of decoration. Brown gut fringe sews inot side seams. Decorative hand at mouth of bag (repeated on side where panels are joined) consisting of dark band of graphite-rubbed gut (or depil. skin), 2 narrow red-dyed strips, w/ white reindeer hair embroidery, and strip of birdskin (duck or cormorant) with dark feather side out. Red bands show occasional decorative loops of sinew and reindeer hair. Long double braided sinew cord attached at one corner, w/ red and grey yarn tassel at end. Sewn with fine sinew thread using running stitch throughout.
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.

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