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Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-10342, described as With head of steel hatchet for blade. Handle of bone carved in rough animal (seal?) form.

Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-38461, described as D" shaped, steel trade axe hafted to a carved whalebone handle.

Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-30946, described as Steel blade hafted with cedar bark twine onto wood handle.

Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-4787, described as Standing figurine on damaged base, human hair embedded in scalp, figure surmounted by animal head. Carved wood with black and red pigments. Oblong object held in right hand. On base: "[souther] n Alaska [presen]ted by Hon. L. B. Mizner May 77;". The figure is probably a doctor (shaman). Animal at top is his messenger (mink?) whose power the doctor obtained by cutting its tongue (fide Charles Brown, June 1964).

Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-4623, described as Totemic man. Legs broken.

Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 2-13284, described as Flannel waistband, strings of pine nuts with shell and metal ornaments.

Hearst Museum object titled Apron, accession number 2-14952, described as Design is section of Chilkat blanket; totemic designs (4 raven heads) in twined mountain goat wool and some commercial yarn in orange, blue, black, white and yellow. Fringed.

Hearst Museum object titled Armor, accession number 2-7189, described as Cloak, probably elk or moose hide, some plaited cedar bark ties and rawhide thongs. Collar (?) at top, several slits, basal fringe.

Hearst Museum object titled Armor, accession number 2-7188, described as Skin armor; armless jacket; 76 centimeters in length.