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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 11-161, described as Turtle bone adze, hafted.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 2-4052, described as Socketed adze, small, stone, with bone handle, green blade.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum 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, museum number 11-160, described as Turtle bone adze, hafted.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze, museum number 2-4056, described as Socketed adze. With steel blade in bone socket, set in bone. Wooden handle, rawhide thong hafting.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Amulet, museum number 6-10516, described as amulet, ivory, of fruit (?)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Amulet, museum number 6-20950, described as bone amulet. Ptolemaic
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Amulet, museum 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 Amulet, museum number 6-10486, described as amulet, ivory
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Amulets, museum number 6-10513, described as amulets, ivory, of crocodile (?)