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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6795, described as Bag made of swan foot skin, lined with cotton cloth; long narrow flap at top.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6516, described as Skin bag; round pouch construction. Bottom and mouth of scraped depilitated deerskin, sides of vertical panels of fishskin and white-tanned depilitated deerskin. Decoration consists of small elongate lozenges of red and bleached leather with fur trim and band of bleached leather around neck of bag. Two leather straps sewn on at mouth. Sinew thread used throughout. Overcast and running stitches. Made with salmon skins from belly and back, deerskin, gut, sinew thread, and fur.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6528, described as Squirrel-skin bag. Fur pouch with rawhide strap. U-shaped.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-13417, described as Of fishskin. Red and black flannel trimming. Floral pattern. Motheaten.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-1580, described as Bag of woven grass, conical, openweave pattern used throughout, at center of base are two plaited strands of grass, the point at which bag started. Natural straw color.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-13606, described as Gut bag with blue and red yarn and calico binding
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6940, described as Beaded fur pouch.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6538, described as Bag made of skin of swans feet. Pouch. Alternating vertical panel of cream-colored hide and swansfeet.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6517, described as Fishskin bag. Oval, vertical side panels with scale side out. Bottom with scale side in. Mouth with horizontal panels, without straps or means of closure. Decorated with lozenge and zig-zag strips of red and white leather, and small geometric shapes sewn on with red thread. Made with salmon skin, twisted sinew thread, red textile thread, scraped gut, red and white tanned leather, white caribou hair. Running and overshot stiches used.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4535, described as Loosely woven, row of openwork near top, 5 rows down from top edge. Woven grass.

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