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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4049, described as Socketed, small stone adze encased in bone, with wooden handle, curved handle pierced in 2 places for rawhide thong binding.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 2-4041, described as Stone ax with wooden handle, stone lashed to handle with rawhide.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6366, described as With recurved tips, sinew backing, sinew cable over horn strips (3 strips: center and inside each curve). wood, slightly curved; cross lashed with sinew to within a short distance of the tips. Inupiaq names: qiluinaq, pisiksiq,
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Drag handle, accession number 2-5987, described as Carved ivory head of wolf. Large perforation through head. Possibly a drag handle.
Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft model, accession number 2-4360, described as Full size lance foreshaft with bone point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fox trap, accession number 2-4412, described as Or wolf trap (Tshucktshi). Wood cylinder with wood and antler sidepieces attached with rawhide and sinew.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Ice scratcher, accession number 2-4400, described as Scraper used when hunting seal to imitate the sound made by seal scratching the ice; with wooden handle, seal claw tip.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Marmot trap, accession number 2-4418, described as Cylindrical, 2 pieces wood fastened together with willow bark lashing. Hollow. Made of two half tubes (carved wood), secured together with spruce root strings; at one end are two holes through which a string with the bait was attached. Toward the entrance on the other side, on the inside is a groove with a hole in the top.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-4153, described as Longbone, wood plug at one end, wood animal head and neck stopper at opposite end, incised linear designs.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Shovel model, accession number 2-4065, described as Wood handle with red markings, bone triangular blade.

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