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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Boat model, paddles, and harpoon, museum number 2-69114a-g, described as a) Boat model; hide lashed to and stretched over gunwales, keel, and ribs; no deck; runners lashed to bottom for land hauling. b-f) Paddles, made of wood. g) Harpoon with toggle point. Materials include ivory, bone, and cotton twine. Finely crafted model; well sanded.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Canoe model, museum number 2-6834, described as Model of birchbark canoe.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak, museum number 2-6349, described as Kayak. Distribution of this style of kayak: from Point Barrrow south to Kotzebue Sound. Point Barrow attributed; refer Adney and Chapelle: The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America; Smithsonian Institution 1964, figures 187-190. Identified by John D. Heath (1965) as Kotzebue Sound type. one-hatch; wood frame covered with skin.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak, museum number 2-6348, described as Kayak made of skin. One hatch, wooden frame covered with skin; small hole in stern.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak, museum number 2-39745, described as Made of walrus hide and wood. "Old style" according to John Heath 1965.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak, museum number 2-3001, described as Wood framework bound with sinews from the spine of the reindeer. The outer covering is bull walrus sealskin. Paddle 2-3003 probably belongs to this kayak. "They do their hunting and fishing in these boats and frail as they look will stand quite rough water when handled by them. This was just finished and made its maiden trip to the ship when I bought it.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak frame, museum number 2-65939, described as Kayak frame; wood secured with twine, remains of canvas cover. Copper nails along rim for attachment of canvas. Bow has hole, stern has split protrusion. Originally skin-covered; skin replaced by canvas by donor's father.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, museum number 2-5909, described as Toy kayak model with hunter in cockpit. Bow in hunter's left arm. Kayak is walrus ivory. Sinew bowstring. Kayak is Nunivak Island type.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, museum number 2-2084, described as Single hatch, in Aleut íqyax’, wood frame, rawhide cover. 4 ivory rests looped through thongs attached to forward deck; 2 bone pieces used to strengthen scarphs in manhole rim; 1 spear thrower, ivory with 2 lines incised and darkened with red paint on one side; 1 wood float, zoomorphic shape with features painted red and feathered tail attached; 1 boat hook with bone spur; 1 mat, slated wood; 2 double bladed paddles; 1 harpoon with ivory foreshaft; 1 spear with metal blade. 1 paddle single blade.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Kayak model, museum number 2-2077a-g, described as (a) Kayak, wood frame with rawhide cover. (b) Spear with float line and board attached with zoomorphic ivory foreshaft. (c) Spear with float line and board attached with ivory foreshaft and point with metal tip. (d, e) Two spears with ivory foreshafts and points. (f) Spear with metal point missing. (g) Spear with metal point; wood on fixtures painted red.