Collection place: Alaska / Culture or time period: Kodiak Eskimo / Function: 1.5 Household - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-11, described as Twining in spruce root, wide false embroidery band below rim with zigzags in reddish brown and straw colors; small areas of false embroidery on body; 2 large repaired areas and 2 rawhide loops at rim. According to Molly Lee (1986) this is an extremely rare basket; designs show relationship to Northwest Coast Indians, but also to Aleuts; zigzag ("Terntail") equals Northwest Coast.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-7, described as Twined spruce root with false embroidery designs in red and green wool triangles on body and on band below rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 2-4683, described as Wooden, cedar or yew, Carved out of a single piece of wood, in the shape of a bird. representing a bird; Carved out while green and soft, and processed and hardened by boiling in water; Oil impregnated.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession 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.