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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6616, described as Arrow; wooden shaft, point lost; proximal end feathered. Native names: pitegcaun, qerrutviit, yaqulegcuun.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5803, described as Light skin, with feather and colored string decorations. Gut fringed on 3 sides. Brown dyed gut (?) inserts, red wool trim attached with cross-stitch embroidery. Plaited sinew carrying cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Baleen, accession number 2-4407, described as Folded baleen strips tied with sinew 2-ply cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Baleen skewers, accession number 2-4406, described as Neumann # 393. Folded baleen strips tied with sinew 2-ply cordage. 3 bundles tied together. Baleen stomach skewers tied with sinew placed in blubber bait to kill wolves, Es
Hearst Museum object titled Ball, accession number 1-259517, described as ball, Indian football made of tanned deerskin, stuff with soaproot riber and sewn with sinew. diameter: 21.cm.; W: 68 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bola, accession number 2-4310, described as Bola. 7 ivory balls on twisted sinew cordage, feather bundle at end. seven cylindrical-shaped bone pieces are pierced at one end and attached to finely twisted sinew cord. The ends of the cord are tied to a group of white feather. Native name: yaqulegcuun.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-4316, described as Stone. 5 pointed grey soft stones on rawhide strips. Five finely carved and ground stone missile-shaped pieces made of grey stone, drilled at one end and attached to leather thong by passing the thong through the hole and securing the end with thread. The other end of the thongs are twisted together.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-4314, described as 6 oval bone balls attached to plaited sinew cordage. Six tear-drop shaped bone carved pieces, drilled at narrow end and attached with a braided sinew string. Leftmost bola with incised line. Native name: yaqulecuun. Vacuumed and treated with 50/50 solution in October 1986.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-4317, described as Bola, native name: yaqulegcuun. 4 soft grey stones (2 bipointed, 2 rounded triangles), on sinew cordage. Remnants feathers. Two missile and two conical shaped pieces made of grey stone, drilled at one end and attached to finely twisted sinew thread. Ends of cord attached to feather, strings coiled. Used to hunt birds.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6374, described as Wood, double curves at both ends about 21 cm long. Braided sinew lashed to entire length with sinew, extra cables of sinew at bends of curves. Backing is tightened with 6 pieces of baleen, 4 pieces of hide under cable.

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