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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fish spear model, accession number 2-1794, described as Fish spear model; red-stained wood shaft; 3 metal points, two of which face inward from bone shafts, 1 extends downward from center of main shaft; red-stained rawhide binding. Made for sale, novelty.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-2964, described as Crooked," long type. Long, curving whalebone handle has 3 finger grooves near base, 2 longitudinal grooves filled with red pigment with broken lines filled with red pigment in between, steel blade attached to handle with 3 brass rivets.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-2949, described as snow, double-edged steel blade fashioned from large file. Willow root binding on the handle, whalebone butt, copper rivets at base of blade. Manufacture: steel file heated, beaten into shape and sharpened. Indigenous name for object "chavik.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Ladle, accession number 2-19278, described as Ladle of fossil ivory.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-2962a-c, described as a) Ivory needle case with 6 inset blue glass beads. b) Ivory thimble holder. c) Ivory whale (?) carving. b) and c) are attached to rawhide cord which goes through a).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Oil lamp, accession number 2-2970, described as Oil lamp of stone, sub triangular, black. Made out of stone hollowed out; whale blubber used as the burning fluid- reindeer moss around the edge to act as wick; very old probably 150 years. Descended from father to son and it is only when he has no descendants will he part with it.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Pickaxe, accession number 2-2961, described as Pick axe or wood splitter; whalebone blade lashed to wood handle with rawhide thongs.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Snowshoe (drag), accession number 2-2987a, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Snowshoe (drag), accession number 2-2988b, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Snowshoe (drag), accession number 2-2988a, no description available.

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