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Start Over Collection place Southwest Coast, Alaska Collector Alaska Commercial Company Culture or time period North American cultures
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze blade, accession number 2-3944, described as Adze blade made of green petrified wood with a ground working edge.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3886, described as Box carved in rectangular shape with sliding lid; painted red. Box contains seeds to bring luck in hunting otter.
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 Knife, accession number 2-3905, described as Stone knife with the cutting edge sharpened at both sides and a hole drilled in the center near the flat edge to fasten the handle. Woman's knife (ulu).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-3904, described as Black slate ulu blade (fish knife) sharpened on both edges with "Ullugak fishknife Karluk" pencilled on stone. Contains a lateral notch for attaching handle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-3934, described as Meat knife with drilled hole for handle. Broken piece of slate with single working edge. Pencilled in is "from Kagmak meat knife."
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Quiver model, accession number 2-4118, described as Wooden, painted red with geometric elements painted in black.

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