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Start Over Object class Baskets by technique Collection place Bering Sea, Western Alaska
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-1518, described as Twined, small.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-6506, described as Small coiled; sealskin center. Grass bundle foundation. Grass twined, flat bottom with leather starter, straight sides, shoulder sloping to straight neck.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-1519, described as Basket; small, twined. Spaced rows, crossed warps. Made of knotted grasses.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-6504, described as Small flat basket; coiled. Twined grass, low rim; flat bottom, short sides flaring slightly outward.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-2782, described as Twined willow root; round and shallow.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-1324, described as Made of coiled grasses and leather.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-1575, described as Coiled grasses, leather piece in bottom.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-4314, described as 6 oval bone balls attached to plaited sinew cordage. Six tear-drop shaped bone carved pieces, drilled at narrow end and attached with a braided sinew string. Leftmost bola with incised line. Native name: yaqulecuun. Vacuumed and treated with 50/50 solution in October 1986.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-4312, described as Bola, native name: yaqulegcuun. 1 oval fossil ivory ball, 4 oval archaeological (?) whalebone balls. Plaited sinew cordage, remnants of bird quills. Four carved bone and one ivory pieces, pierced on one end, are attached to finely twisted organic fiber cord. Terminal ends of cord tied to feather spines. The ivory piece was previously used as a fish hook shank as indicated by two peripheral holes
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-69171, described as Wood shaft with bone socketpiece. Bone barbed point attached with seal thong. Some plaited sinew wrapping. Fletched, bladder missing. Found mis-numbered in 1988 (had #2-6365 on it which belongs to a Kodiak harpoon arrow); ivory socket mortised to take the shaft's distal end; winding of braided sinew; retaining line lashed on shaft down to the lashing of the three. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.

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