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Start Over Materials Sinew (material) Accession number Acc.167 Function 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4053, described as Stone blade (missing) was set into an antler socket; lashed to wooden handle with braided sinew string; handle wrapped with additional sinew string to procure a better grip.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 2-4287, described as Antler with groove for blade and socket. 2 perforations. Remnant sinew cordage. Specimen also marked 2-1170.
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 Drill, accession number 2-6746, described as Made of stone. Nephrite bit with wood handle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drill handle, accession number 2-7525, described as Bit missing. Wood with rawhide lashing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Knife sharpener, accession number 2-4248, described as Beaver tooth knife sharpener. Beaver tooth set in wood handle. Sinew thread binding.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netting shuttle, accession number 2-6637, described as Whalebone netting shuttle (baleen). According to Nelson, "the Eskimo of eastern Siberia and of St. Lawrence Island must have derived the pattern of their shuttles from farther south, and the imported design thus replaced the ordinary kind in use among their relatives of the islands of Bering strait and the American shore." INUA: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo: "St. Lawrence Islanders obviously liked the design of the whalers' net shuttles, which they copied and made out of baleen.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netting shuttle, accession number 2-6638, described as Netting shuttle, made of baleen.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5814, described as 1 - piece pattern with high rounded flap and narrow vertical side seam inserts. Decorated with red and black dyed strips of gut, painted areas of hematite and red pigment. Sinew loops, bundles of whiskers and colored yarns. Edging of depil. sealskin. Appliqued black leather royal crown inside flap. According to Molly Lee (1986) the appliqued designs are derived from Russian examples. Made with bleached leather, tar (?) paint.
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.

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