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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4290, described as Made of seal gut, ornamented with red and black yarn and white feathers. Gut strips sewn together with waterproof stitches; opening of the same material. A very thin and narrow strip of fish skin, dyed red and blue, sewn into the seam to assume a better water tightness. The seams are also decorated with white down.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5806, described as Long gut bag with red and black dyed trim. Damaged.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-4542, described as Twined. Embroidered with colored wool, braided rim with drawstring.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-4548, described as Plain twined, openwork. Ornamented with colored wool, braided edge.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6317, described as Sea otter harpoon
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 2-6564, described as Fur cap with ivory ornaments. Red and white cotton cloth top, cotton cloth lining. Repaired with trade cloth. Northwest Coast face designs on ivory ornaments.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-6798, described as Bead necklace worn by women. 2 strands of red, white, blue, amber and clear glass beads.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5805, described as Scraped stomach or intestines, tanned white. Made in 7 horizontal panels, largest one folded over for a seamless bottom. No decoration in side seams. Main decoration is horizontal fringing of seal hair, red yarn, white reindeer hair embroidery and red-painted depilated hide or gut, about 5 cm from bottom. Next, a wide black graphite-painted horizontal panel with white reindeer hair embroidery and loop-fringing, red and gray yarns and threads, and red-painted gut strips. White windpipe skin inset with black & red dyed gutskin and seal fur; trimmed with white quill and red wool yarn. Bag string: braided white cotton yarn into which pink, black tufts of cotton have been mixed, at end a white glass bead.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-4527, described as White leather. Long single pocket with 2 transverse bands with applique of black gut coated with specular hematite trimmed with red wool cloth and red dyed sinew. Embroidery. 3 lobed designs in red leather or gut on inside of flap. Fur tuft inserts.

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