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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6714, described as With bone point; red-stained wood mainshaft, bone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves and whale tooth inlay; point has 3 barbs on one side and is attached by a plaited sinew line with remnants of red wool yarn; no fletching as that end is badly damaged. Whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft and secrued with braided sinew; unilaterally barbed ivory tip secured with braided sinew; feathers and proximal end lost. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq.
Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6358, described as Wooden shaft, center grip narrowed. Full length sinew cable backing broken towards ends, attached at either side of grip and two sets of four wrappings near ends. Twisted sinew bowstring. wood, carved; front surface reinforced with a small bundle of sinew string, which is partly damaged; strong bow string of twisted sinew; section of wood is convex on front and flat on backside. Alutiiq name: qitguyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 2-29363, described as Wooden, unfinished.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-7181, described as Long baseball-bat shape. Lathe-turned wood. Long and heavy cylindrical club, tapering to the handle. Fur seal (Callorhinus alascanus) club.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-6567, described as Long baseball-bat shape, distal part worn from use. Split in center. Lathe-turned wood. Long and heavy cylindrical club, tapering to the handle; worn from use, split along grain. Used for killing seals by Russian-Americans or ACC.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-6566, described as Long baseball-bat shape, distal part worn from use. Lathe-turned wood. Long & heavy cylindrical club, tapering to the handle; worn from use. For killing seals, by employees of the Russian-American or Alaska Commercial Company.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Dagger, accession number 2-4010, described as Stone lance head, slate blade. Long, thin slate blade shafted into a wooden foreshaft; baleen lashing; section of foreshaft is also very flat.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Dipper, accession number 2-6273, described as Wooden dipper, with handle. Bent wood lashed together with spruce root to form dipper with integral handle extending from side. Fitted bottom held in place with wood peg (rivets); the outside of bottom is decorated with incised swastika.
Hearst Museum object titled Doll, accession number 2-71772, described as Alaskan Eskimo bride doll. Stuffed body with carved wooden face and painted features. Dressed in high mukluks or winter boots, parka of brown seal skin with decorative tufts of wool and fur. Around the bottom of the parka there are red and green beads. Mukluks have black and blue beads on the front. H = 10.5”
Hearst Museum object titled Doll, accession number 2-71724a-c, described as (a) Alaskan Eskimo doll. Dough face, stuffed fabric body. Has complete Eskimo costume of muskrat, badger, beaver, black fox and nutria furs. (b) Carries a nicely made harpoon. Accompanied by, (c) wood block raft.

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