Object class: Watercraft / Collection place: Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska / Culture or time period: North American cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Kayak, accession number 2-6349, described as Kayak. Distribution of this style of kayak: from Point Barrrow south to Kotzebue Sound. Point Barrow attributed; refer Adney and Chapelle: The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America; Smithsonian Institution 1964, figures 187-190. Identified by John D. Heath (1965) as Kotzebue Sound type. one-hatch; wood frame covered with skin.

Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-2086, described as Single hatch, in Aleut an íqyax’, wood frame, rawhide cover. 1 boat hook; 1 spear thrower; 1 double blade paddle with geometric design in blue paint; 4 harpoons with ivory foreshafts and points; 2 spears with chip flint projectile points. Wood frame of boat is painted red.

Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-2092, described as Single hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover. 8 fixtures include: harpoon with ivory point and foreshaft, metal tip, rawhide line; 2 spears with metal tips and sinew line; 1 paddle decorated with red painted geometric design, crossbar handle; harpoon with ivory foreshaft and barbed ivory point and mat of wood slats.