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Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5811, described as Leather, with embroidery of red skin and thread. U - shaped flat pouch of bleached deerskin trimmed with sealskin, red dyed applique strips, plaited sinew carrying cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6516, described as Skin bag; round pouch construction. Bottom and mouth of scraped depilitated deerskin, sides of vertical panels of fishskin and white-tanned depilitated deerskin. Decoration consists of small elongate lozenges of red and bleached leather with fur trim and band of bleached leather around neck of bag. Two leather straps sewn on at mouth. Sinew thread used throughout. Overcast and running stitches. Made with salmon skins from belly and back, deerskin, gut, sinew thread, and fur.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4290, described as Made of seal gut, ornamented with red and black yarn and white feathers. Gut strips sewn together with waterproof stitches; opening of the same material. A very thin and narrow strip of fish skin, dyed red and blue, sewn into the seam to assume a better water tightness. The seams are also decorated with white down.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6563, described as Squirrel skin bag, motheaten. Pendant red flannel strips.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-1615, described as Gold dust bag; thin hide or leather w/glass “seedbead” ornamentation and cotton cloth strips at top. Made by Eskimo for use by gold miners. According to Alaskan Eskimo consultant Ronald L. Senungetuk (July 1987): “This is also a coin bag (ighungquaq in Nome area means imitation rectum) which could hold $1000.00 worth of silver dollars”.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5796, described as Small circular bag of skin of water birds feet and white gut or leather vertical stripes, base and mouth; red flannel trim.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6526, described as Part of fishskin bag. Some alternating panels of hide and some decorative overlay with fur inserts.
Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3883, described as Small bone box for caps with wooden lid and bottom; thong attaches to the lid. Leather band encircling. Body cut from cross-section of a walrus tusk. Red stained wood and leather.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5805, described as Scraped stomach or intestines, tanned white. Made in 7 horizontal panels, largest one folded over for a seamless bottom. No decoration in side seams. Main decoration is horizontal fringing of seal hair, red yarn, white reindeer hair embroidery and red-painted depilated hide or gut, about 5 cm from bottom. Next, a wide black graphite-painted horizontal panel with white reindeer hair embroidery and loop-fringing, red and gray yarns and threads, and red-painted gut strips. White windpipe skin inset with black & red dyed gutskin and seal fur; trimmed with white quill and red wool yarn. Bag string: braided white cotton yarn into which pink, black tufts of cotton have been mixed, at end a white glass bead.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-3676, described as Pouch, of skin of old male prairie dog.

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