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Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 11-161, described as Turtle bone adze, hafted.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4052, described as Socketed adze, small, stone, with bone handle, green blade.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4051, described as Socketed adze, small stone ax with bone handle, green blade. Second original number: W.L.G. #11.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 11-160, described as Turtle bone adze, hafted.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4056, described as Socketed adze. With steel blade in bone socket, set in bone. Wooden handle, rawhide thong hafting.
Hearst Museum object titled Amulet, accession number 18-940, described as Amulet, bone; one side covered with inscription in Batak characters; other side has a protective spirit figure, a seven-pointed star, and eight-armed and four-armed cross; triangular shape, perforation near apex. Made from scapula of a sacrificed water buffalo. Used as a protective amulet; worn by warriors under the headcloth to ward off bullets, missiles, and lethal blows; other used: hung on the roof post of the house during ritual hand washing; worn by menstruating women to ward off ghosts and spirits that might cause illness; the figures are apotropaic, and the inscription is a spell summoning certain spirits. Length 16.5 cm
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6604, described as Small; quadra-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew; feathered proximal point. Bird arrow used for training boys. Native names: pitegcauksuar, akitnaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4711, described as Broad, sharp pointed bone head; wooden shaft, notched on proximal end; two tangential fathers; museum restoration: modern string lashing. Large game land hunting arrow. Native names: pitegcaun, tuquctiissuun.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6587, described as Bone head has ownership marks. Quadralobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft and secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end. Native names: pitegcaun, qerrutviit, yaqulecuun.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6666, described as Arrow, point lost, wooden shaft; three damaged feathers at proximal end.

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