Object name: Pouch / Collection place: Alaska / Function: 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5814, described as 1 - piece pattern with high rounded flap and narrow vertical side seam inserts. Decorated with red and black dyed strips of gut, painted areas of hematite and red pigment. Sinew loops, bundles of whiskers and colored yarns. Edging of depil. sealskin. Appliqued black leather royal crown inside flap. According to Molly Lee (1986) the appliqued designs are derived from Russian examples. Made with bleached leather, tar (?) paint.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5804, described as Small and flat with scraped gut panels. Decorative horizontal strips of rubbed gut, red - dye gut, birdskin, brown gut fringe and reindeer hair embroidery. Long braided sinew cord with yarn tassel. Scraped stomach or intestines tanned white. Body made in 3 horizontal panels: one folded over (to make seamless bottom) and one added on each side to increase depth of bag. Several kinds of decoration. Brown gut fringe sews inot side seams. Decorative hand at mouth of bag (repeated on side where panels are joined) consisting of dark band of graphite-rubbed gut (or depil. skin), 2 narrow red-dyed strips, w/ white reindeer hair embroidery, and strip of birdskin (duck or cormorant) with dark feather side out. Red bands show occasional decorative loops of sinew and reindeer hair. Long double braided sinew cord attached at one corner, w/ red and grey yarn tassel at end. Sewn with fine sinew thread using running stitch throughout.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5813, described as 3 piece pattern, white gut. Most decoration damaged or missing. Horizontal decorative bands of sealskin, gut, leather and coating of specular hematite (molybdenite according to Jessica Towns). Long undecorated hanging loop of braided sealskin. Made with graphite-blackened gut; red/white gut; hairless sealskin; Stomach membrane, sinew, gut, seal fur, leather (sp.?), red, purple & black thread, hematite (molybdenite according to Jessica Towns). Running stitch used throughout.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5815, described as Flat pouch with scraped white gut panels and transverse inset of specular hematite (more likely is molybdenite) - rubbed gut (black) and red - dyed gut. Braided sinew carrying cord with remnant of wool yarn. White skin (windpipe) trimmed with red and dark brown dyed leather and white seal fur and appliqued braid; plaited sinew string(c.70 cm) some blue, red and black wool yarn on edges, mixed with the plaited sinew.