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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Boat model, paddles, and harpoon, accession number 2-69114a-g, described as a) Boat model; hide lashed to and stretched over gunwales, keel, and ribs; no deck; runners lashed to bottom for land hauling. b-f) Paddles, made of wood. g) Harpoon with toggle point. Materials include ivory, bone, and cotton twine. Finely crafted model; well sanded.
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.
Hearst Museum object titled Kayak frame, accession number 2-65939, described as Kayak frame; wood secured with twine, remains of canvas cover. Copper nails along rim for attachment of canvas. Bow has hole, stern has split protrusion. Originally skin-covered; skin replaced by canvas by donor's father.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-69122, described as Made of handcarved ivory. Abstract figure of man in cockpit; harpoons are lashed to the deck and gunwale; storage platform in front of the man, seal carcass behind; paddle is missing from the hands.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-66965, described as Model kayak covered in rawhide with a seated figure with paddles and hunting gear of ivory, metal and wood. The figure has a stone carved face and is dressed in a fur-trimmed leather parka.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-71514a, described as Kayak model, brown sealskin, sinew-sewn, over wood frame; sinew loops on deck for attachments; length 75 cm. Context: See “Images of the North” appraisal, p. 74, for additional information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model and weapon models, accession number 2-71514a-f, described as Kayak model with model weapons, etc. (a) kayak, brown sealskin, sinew-sewn, over wood frame; sinew loops on deck for attachments; length 75 cm; (b) articulated harpoon, wood, sinew and ivory or bone, length 25 cm; (c) killing spear, wood, sinew, ivory or bone, length 22.7 cm; (d) paddle double-bladed type, wood, ivory, length 38.4 cm; (e) weapon rest, wood, length 4 cm; (f) sealskin float, bone stopper, length (float only) 5.5 cm. Context: See “Images of the North” appraisal, p. 74, for additional information. NOTE: ivory weapon rest to side of cockpit; also, empty loop on deck of kayak for missing hooked stick lost by Professor Graburn.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Umiak model, accession number 2-71513a, no description available.

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