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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, museum number 2-6563, described as Squirrel skin bag, motheaten. Pendant red flannel strips.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, museum 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 Basket, museum number 2-7528, described as With bail handle. Twining with remnant of red and blue wool yarn woven in at top.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), museum number 2-6556a,b, described as Knee-height boots, sealskin sole, sealskin uppers. Red felt around boot-top and seams of uppers. Tanned leather ankle straps. skin with epidermis removed, oogruk soles in King Island/Diomede/Wales style.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow, museum number 2-6363, described as Back narrowed at grip, full length sinew cable backing. Twisted sinew bowstring. Wood carved; on front side reinforced with a small bundle of braided sinew strings, decorated with tufts of red & black wool (?); the bow string is a strong twisted sinew cord; the section of wood is convex on front & practically flat on back surface. Alutiiq name: qitguyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Coat, museum number 2-6730, described as Skin coat, with fur edging. intestine strips sewn vertically across the shoulders; horizontal strips from the waist to the square bottom; trimmed with sealskin; some red wool tassels in the seams; on back of pointed hood a miniature pouch for child.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Coat, museum number 2-6677, described as Seal gut ornamented with feathers and worsted. Each horizontal gore ornamented with feathers and wool worsted fabric; border of neck, sleeves and bottom elaborated with braid on fabric, and fur fringe.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, museum number 2-6695, described as Bird skin (cormorant ?) parka, feathers out. No hood, straight calf-length hem. Decoration of red cloth and rabbit skin (?) tassels. Depilated, red skin band around hips with gut strips; reindeer and marten (?) on cuffs. Made with Cormorant skin (?), reindeer, marten (?), tanned hide, gut, rabbit skin, woven cloth, cotton thread, sinew thread (?). According to Eskimo consultant Ronald W. Senungetuk, July 1987: "Trim is made of caribou or reindeer, sea otter, ochre dyed bird skin and leather, decorated with red wool fabric, rabbit skin tassels and red band embellished with gut strips sewn above the bottom edge; reindeer hide and marten fur on cuffs. caribou or reindeer skin band turned inside out with seal''s throat skin overlay and danglers made of unborn or newly born fawn skin. Styling is Kodiak which may have been during or after Russian regime but it may be totally traditional." References: Birket-Smith, Ethno. Studies, Copenhagen, 1941, p.124; Hatt, Arct. Anth., 1969, p. 49.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, museum number 2-4530, described as Rectangular, flat. White-tanned (bleached) deerskin with horizontal bands of sealskin, dyed leather and scraped gut. Clipped white reindeer hide around mouth. Embroidery and red yarn. Short braided sinew hanging line at mouth. Sinew thread, running stitch. Small loops of white reindeer hair sewn around sinew thread. Made with ocher, gut, sinew, yarn, alder dye (?); white reindeer hair embroidery, black gut; sewn in running stitch. Possibly some red alder dye.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, museum number 2-5813, described as 3 piece pattern, white gut. Most decoration damaged or missing. Horizontal decorative bands of sealskin, gut, leather and coating of specular hematite (molybdenite according to Jessica Towns). Long undecorated hanging loop of braided sealskin. Made with graphite-blackened gut; red/white gut; hairless sealskin; Stomach membrane, sinew, gut, seal fur, leather (sp.?), red, purple & black thread, hematite (molybdenite according to Jessica Towns). Running stitch used throughout.