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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gauntlets, accession number 2-6483a,b, described as Dancing gauntlets set with puffin bills and quills.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 2-71516, described as Stringed musical instrument with bow; a) box: plywood and wood, pegged together; rectangular; three strings of braided whale’s back sinew; l. 39.5.; b) bridge, wood, l. 6.2.; c) bridge,stepped; l/ 3.2 cm.; d) bow with braided sinew string, l. 42.8 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Puppet, accession number 2-1302, described as Drummer (?) with jointed arms, seated with legs folded in front; arms attached with rawhide thong and drumsticks probably once held in hands; carved wood with red-stained body, black painted facial features.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 2-6470, described as Round wooden rattle with widthwise grip. Red top and bottom, white on edges.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 2-2963a-e, described as Wooden baby rattler, wooden seals. 5 carved willow seals, all connected with rawhide thong.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 2-6480, described as Double hoops with crossbar handle, pendant puffin bills attached with sinew cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 2-4976, described as Dance rattle, wooden painted ornament with hanging sticks; 2 curved pieces of flat wood attached with a root; long strip of baleen connected in center; white pigment one side only; multiple dangling wood rods.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 2-6469, described as Double hoops with crossbar handle, pendant puffin bills attached with sinew cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 2-15610, described as Dance breast rattle of baleen with 3 bone rings and 15 tapered cylindrical bone "pins" tied on.
Hearst Museum object titled Rattle and rattle fragments, accession number 2-16885, described as Decorated with puffin beaks, red and (Russian) blue glass beads. 1 rattle plus rattle fragments. Twigs wrapped in cloth.

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