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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak, accession number 2-62061, described as Kayak; skin-covered kayak with damaged hull; large circular hole at bow, projecting handgrip at stern. Wooden frame with skin cover of walrus or seal hide. As Larry Dawson and others recall (1979) the kayak was made on Nunivak Island but was bought on the mainland where it had been in use. The donors left it outdoors here in the Bay Area where it deteriorated and warped out of shape.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak and harpoon models, accession number 2-19146, described as 3-hole kayak, wood frame, rawhide cover, with harpoon model with ivory foreshaft. Spear thrower also accompanied kayak, but now missing. References: cf. Adney & Chapelle, p. 196, fig. 178 for Unalaska kayak.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak and paddle model, accession number 2-10738a,b, described as (a) Kayak: 3-hatch, model, rawhide cover, wood frame, bifid bow. Tear in bottom. (b) paddle: single blade, geometric design in blue paint.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak frame, accession number 2-14886a-c, described as Kayak frame with sail and incomplete cover. Main framework is planed wood with ribs of branches, lashed together wit cord, all painted red. Sail is canvas, attached with cord to round wooden pieces top and bottom, small hole/opening near top. A-frame, 509.5 centimeters long, B-sail 80 centimeters long, width of bottom is 80 centimeters and the top is 45 centimeters. C-cover rolled with circumference of 62.5 centimeters. Skin is probably sea lion per Jacob Stepetin.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-6437a, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-14235, described as 2-hole; painted red with red, white and blue cotton threads decorating the deck; 2 figures of wood wearing sealskin parkas; 5 fixtures including paddles and weapons. Rawhide cover.
Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-15596, described as 3-hatch skin covered boat and therefore modeled after post-contact vessels. Damaged, fragile.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-18873a-c, described as (a) Kayak model, 2 hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. (b-c) 2 human figures each holding a double-bladed paddle, both made of cloth with features embroidered in blue. (b) Wears white and light blue stripe cotton shirt and red worsted muffler, blades of paddle painted black. (c) wears blue shirt with brown worsted muffler and carries blue painted paddle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-5911, described as Carved walrus ivory. Armless but hatted figure in cockpit, paddles and spears incised on deck.
Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-4569, described as 2-hatch. Wood frame, rawhide cover. 2 human figures wearing hats painted bright blue and red and wearing sealskin parkas. 15 fixtures including weapons and paddles painted bright red and blue.

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