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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6517, described as Fishskin bag. Oval, vertical side panels with scale side out. Bottom with scale side in. Mouth with horizontal panels, without straps or means of closure. Decorated with lozenge and zig-zag strips of red and white leather, and small geometric shapes sewn on with red thread. Made with salmon skin, twisted sinew thread, red textile thread, scraped gut, red and white tanned leather, white caribou hair. Running and overshot stiches used.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-20978, described as Beaded. Made of tanned caribou hide with moose hide trim and fringe.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-1555, described as Fishskin bag; oval, pouch construction with vertical side-panels sewn to rounded bottom. Constructed entirely of salmon skin except decorative bands and scallops of scraped gut and hide, with white caribou hair sewn in. Sewn in with sinew in overcast and running stitch.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-2314, described as Birchbark. Oval shaped rim. Rectangular at base; rim decorated with checkerboard pattern (2 rows) red wool and caribou hair.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Buzzer, accession number 2-56533a-d, described as Buzzer; two wood grips attached to caribou astragalus with sinew; a) astragalus, width 6 cm.; b) wood grip, length 8.7 cm.; c) wood grip, width 9.5 cm; d) extra sinew. Buzzer passed from person to person while it is whirling.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Caribou skin, accession number 2-2155, described as Smoked caribou skin.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Caribou skin, accession number 2-2156, described as Smoked caribou skin.
Hearst Museum object titled Doll, accession number 2-71770, described as Athabaskan man doll. All leather, stuffed doll, embroidered features, slightly molded nose; thread hair. Dressed in brown leather, 2-piece, high moccasins beaded in white/red/blue, and long leather trousers tucked into boots. Leather tunic with fringe across chest and shoulders, beaded w/ red/white/light blue, including around sleeves. Leather headband. Caribou teeth for hands. H = 9”.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 2-56532a,b, described as Game; ball and cup game. (a) Base; caribou antler and bone with marten tail. Length 24 cm. including tail. (b) Pin of bird bone and sinew cordage. Length 7 cm. Used by anyone but more a man’s game; each cup has points; 10-100 points depending on distance to tail.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-1305, described as Wood, painted red cheeks, border; black eyebrows and eye outlines; encircled by part of double hoop (feathers, caribou hair and remainder of hoop broken off); sinew and fishskin ties pierce the cheek. Also made with spruce root. Pencilled on back of mask: "Kosorefsky Yukon River".

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