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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6621, described as Arrow, unilateraly barbed bone point set into wooden shaft, lashed wih sinew; fletching lost on proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-22701, described as hemp tumpline, decorated with dyed red, green, and purple hemp strings, head-band 20 length. extended length 14 feet 3 inches. bought at market in Villahermosa by Robert F. Heizer.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 3-22700, described as hemp tumpline, decorated with dyed red and green hemp strings, head-band 21 length. extended length 14 feet 5 inches. bought at market in Villahermosa by Robert F. Heizer.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-6678a,b, described as Long boots made of fish skin.
Hearst Museum object titled Fence model, accession number 2-6389, described as Model of fence before a trap (2-6392); wood dowels bound together.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 2-4498, described as With line and stick. 2 piece bone hook with barbed section attached with commercial cordage. Heavy fiber line connects hook and wood stick, stick lashed to line with sinew in 3 places.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6321, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed attached to an Y-shaped leather thong tied at 25 & 86 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft wound with braided sinew; a hemp string connects this winding with the next attachment of dart line; two feathers at proximal end, bound to shaft with twisted sinew; brown colored wooden shaft, circular in section, tapering to the proximal end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon model, accession number 2-6883, described as Wooden. Carved; shaft, foreshaft & toggling head; sinew dart line & hemp string for lashing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Mesh measure, accession number 2-4192, described as Mesh measure/gauge. Antler rawhide thong wrapping on handle.
Hearst Museum object titled Telar, accession number 3-278, described as Telar for making faja

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