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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze handle, accession number 2-4287, described as Antler with groove for blade and socket. 2 perforations. Remnant sinew cordage. Specimen also marked 2-1170.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Baleen, accession number 2-4407, described as Folded baleen strips tied with sinew 2-ply cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Baleen skewers, accession number 2-4406, described as Neumann # 393. Folded baleen strips tied with sinew 2-ply cordage. 3 bundles tied together. Baleen stomach skewers tied with sinew placed in blubber bait to kill wolves, Es
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow and arrows, accession number 2-4409a-c, described as Arrows with bow, used for hunting muskrat. (a) sinew-backed bow (b/c) antler or bone tipped arrow. Wood bow, reinforced with a sinew lashing; two arrows have bone or antler with asymmetric points; a string of sinew is wound around each arrow. For the hunt the other end was knotted to the bow. Rib bone; asymmetrically carved point; notched at proximal end to take arrow string. See bow 2-4409a and arrows 2-4409b,c. For hunting small game such as muskrat.
Hearst Museum object titled Drag handle and cord, accession number 2-4270, described as Thong of sealskin through 2 ivory seal heads.
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 Harpoon, accession number 2-6290, described as With bladder. Bone point bilaterally barbed, dart line of leather cut after 10 cm; commercial leather lace used to attach the point to the shaft, restored in 1980s; the dart line was attached to the shaft just below the socket. Used for hunting small sea mammals. Native names: narullkautaq, aklegaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon toggle, accession number 2-4377, described as Antler with brass point, rawhide leader.
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 Net, accession number 2-48523, described as Neumann 363. 2 wood end spreaders with bone bases (1 refashioned arrow or harpoon point). Sinew 2-ply knotless cordage netting net.

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