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Start Over Object class Watercraft Culture or time period Alaskan cultures
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.
Hearst Museum object titled Boat model, accession number 2-6424a,b, described as Model of open skin boat (umiak). Sail missing (1975). wooden frame covered with skin; bow characteristic of Pacific Eskimo; fabric sail, sewn from three pieces attached to two wooden mast poles.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Canoe model, accession number 2-805, described as Model of canoe, incised and darkened lines for paddle, etc. Made of ivory.
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.
Hearst Museum object titled Kayak frame, accession number 2-14886a, described as Kayak frame. Main framework is planed wood with ribs of branches, lashed together with cord and sinew, 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. King Island-style kayak with a hole at the bow.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-6439, described as 2-hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover with 2 figures wearing cotton shirts and mufflers and sealskin parkas. Full set of 9 spears, wood.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-6437a, no description available.

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