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Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5811, described as Leather, with embroidery of red skin and thread. U - shaped flat pouch of bleached deerskin trimmed with sealskin, red dyed applique strips, plaited sinew carrying cord.
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 Boat model, accession number 2-4570, described as Model of open skin boat (umiak) with red painted wood frame. 14 rowers inside wearing sealskin parkas and wood hats of various styles. Painted using yellow, white, red and black pigments. Fixtures include 10 paddles and one bow. Replica of liquor flask (black) is inside boat. skin-covered open boat with hunting crew = 12 paddles, 1 steerer (captain with whaler's hat), 1 hunter at the bow with bow & arrow.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-6435, described as 3 hatch, wood frame, sealskin covered.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-4567, described as Kayak model, 3-hatch with bifid bow, wood frame, rawhide cover. Three human figures of wood wearing sealskin parkas and wooden hats carved from same piece as figure. Six fixtures including paddles and weapons, some with geometric pattern in red and black paint. Length of kayak 73 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-6441, described as One hatch, wood frame, rawhide covered. 3 harpoons with ivory foreshaft and points. 1 paddle painted red with crossbar handle. 1 woven grass mat probably used as seat in manhole. 1 slat wood mat, painted red geometric design.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6690, described as Parka with calf-length straight-cut hem, bird skin with feathers, no hood. Sleeves and hem decorated with geometric patterns and bands of clipped skin, dyed gut, tanned hide (dyed red). Sealskin trimming on cuffs and hem. Collar trimmed with fur (species ?). Very wide, long, roomy cut. Cotton and sinew thread.
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.
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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