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Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-4530, described as Rectangular, flat. White-tanned (bleached) deerskin with horizontal bands of sealskin, dyed leather and scraped gut. Clipped white reindeer hide around mouth. Embroidery and red yarn. Short braided sinew hanging line at mouth. Sinew thread, running stitch. Small loops of white reindeer hair sewn around sinew thread. Made with ocher, gut, sinew, yarn, alder dye (?); white reindeer hair embroidery, black gut; sewn in running stitch. Possibly some red alder dye.