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Start Over Media available legacy documentation Culture or time period Eskimo Function 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-5891, described as Figurine. Ivory carving of a standing person with arms spread.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-5876, described as Figurine; ivory carving of a person.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-5887, described as Ivory carving of a person. Head and trunk only. Hole through chest.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6378, described as Harpoon arrow. Wood shaft, bone socket piece, bone barbed point attached with seal thong line. Fletching destroyed (only quill stubs left). Very short & dull bone point attached to a short leather thong tied to shaft at 51 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of wooden shaft; winding of twisted sinew, and short retaining line of leather; socket weighted with lead.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6568, described as Bird arrow, toy arrow used for training boys. Wooden shaft, tip lost; feathers at proximal end. Antler, serrated head. Native name: pitegcauksuar.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6601, described as Small, bi-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; proximal end feathered. Native names: pitegcauksar, akitnaq. Bird arrow used for training boys.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6604, described as Small; quadra-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew; feathered proximal point. Bird arrow used for training boys. Native names: pitegcauksuar, akitnaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6602, described as Small arrow used for training boys; asymmetrical barbed antler point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathered proximal end. Native name: pitegcauksuar.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6607, described as Small; quadra-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft; lashed with sinew; feathers mostly lost from proximal end. Bird arrow used for training boys. Native names: pitegcauksar, akitnaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6608, described as Small; quadra-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew; feathers lost from distal end. Bird arrow used for training boys.

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