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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 2-4683, described as Wooden, cedar or yew, Carved out of a single piece of wood, in the shape of a bird. representing a bird; Carved out while green and soft, and processed and hardened by boiling in water; Oil impregnated.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Crochet needle, accession number 2-4150, described as Crochet needle. Carved walrus ivory, 4 cornered handle with two birds at top. Filled black dot design.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishhook, accession number 2-4495, described as Ivory. Separate barb tied to stem with sinew thong, remnant baleen line in perforation in stem.
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 Fishhook, accession number 2-4496, described as Ivory. Separate barb tied to stem with 2-ply sinew cordage. Hook suspended from heavier plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6674, described as Red-painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs; fletched; plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6591, described as Red-painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs; fletched; plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6592, described as Red-painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs; fletched; plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle, accession number 2-4149, described as Ivory, tapered shaft with sphere, rectangle with incised red dots above. At top is carved bird.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-4530, described as Rectangular, flat. White-tanned (bleached) deerskin with horizontal bands of sealskin, dyed leather and scraped gut. Clipped white reindeer hide around mouth. Embroidery and red yarn. Short braided sinew hanging line at mouth. Sinew thread, running stitch. Small loops of white reindeer hair sewn around sinew thread. Made with ocher, gut, sinew, yarn, alder dye (?); white reindeer hair embroidery, black gut; sewn in running stitch. Possibly some red alder dye.

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