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Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-4565, described as 2-hatch. Wood frame, rawhide cover decorated with bright red and blue paint with 2 human figures wearing sealskin parkas decorated with bright red and blue paint along seams and wearing hats with geometric linear designs in bright red and blue paint with seal whiskers. 6 fixtures include weapons and paddles. wood covered with gut, painted white & on gunwale blue & red; with a paddler at rear and hunter in front. Figures wearing conical hats and waterproof parka & aprons. Hands made of iron wires. Weapon, paddle, and weapon guard on deck.

Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, accession number 2-6438, described as 3 hatch (ulluxtaq), wood frame with rawhide cover, 2 figures wearing sealskin parkas with rawhide wristlets and mufflers painted red and wearing hats of wood (also painted red), stick of wood for manipulating line painted red with zoomorphic carved head on blade tip and on blade 3 zoomorphic figures painted in brown pigment.

Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6695, described as Bird skin (cormorant ?) parka, feathers out. No hood, straight calf-length hem. Decoration of red cloth and rabbit skin (?) tassels. Depilated, red skin band around hips with gut strips; reindeer and marten (?) on cuffs. Made with Cormorant skin (?), reindeer, marten (?), tanned hide, gut, rabbit skin, woven cloth, cotton thread, sinew thread (?). According to Eskimo consultant Ronald W. Senungetuk, July 1987: "Trim is made of caribou or reindeer, sea otter, ochre dyed bird skin and leather, decorated with red wool fabric, rabbit skin tassels and red band embellished with gut strips sewn above the bottom edge; reindeer hide and marten fur on cuffs. caribou or reindeer skin band turned inside out with seal''s throat skin overlay and danglers made of unborn or newly born fawn skin. Styling is Kodiak which may have been during or after Russian regime but it may be totally traditional." References: Birket-Smith, Ethno. Studies, Copenhagen, 1941, p.124; Hatt, Arct. Anth., 1969, p. 49.