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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.

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 9-21270, described as Man’s leather pouch (to be worn on belt). Back trapeze-shaped buffalo (?) leather, edged with donkey skin. Unlined. Rounded corners. Front wider on top but gathered with a fold into the same shape as the back. Heavy white silk cord runs through two times three holes in front, two holes in back, where the loop can be fastened to the belt. A center panel of doubled brownish cotton-cloth creates two compartments. Front completely covered with split-stitch embroidery on terrra cotta colored silk. The words “A container for a whole mass of Treasures” appear in the lower half among flowers. Wider donkey skin triple-stitched; front holes leather-reinforced. Pouch 19 cm wide at bottom;16.5 at top; height 15 cm.