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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 Arrow, accession number 2-6377, described as Land animal or seal arrow. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. bone unilaterally barbed head; damaged with numerous cuts; wooden shaft, three black feathers at proximal end.
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, accession number 2-6366, described as With recurved tips, sinew backing, sinew cable over horn strips (3 strips: center and inside each curve). wood, slightly curved; cross lashed with sinew to within a short distance of the tips. Inupiaq names: qiluinaq, pisiksiq,
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 Doll, accession number 2-71771, described as Male hunter doll. Figure dressed in traditional water proof and windproof seal/walrus intestine parka. Has a bleadched sealskin face with embroidered features and appliqued nose. Soft sealskin body, crimped seal soled mukluks. His seal skin hair is cut in traditional Siberian style, bald on top, with fringe around the head. Park is entirely hand sewn. It has seal fur at the ends of each arm and around the bottom of the parka. It is bleached white, sewn with sinew. Has a suede belt tied around waist. H = 34.5 cm.
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.

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