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Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 11-1126, described as Adze handle
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 2-4044, described as Ground and pecked black stone head (found underground and rehafted). Grooved and painted wooden handle with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic carved faces. Hafting by triple rawhide lashings through pierced handle. Pigment used.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze, accession number 11-1127, described as Adze handle.
Hearst Museum object titled Adze blade, accession number 11-1081, described as Stone adze. Specimen marked Fiji. Unlike known Fijian blade forms. Specimen conforms in shape exactly to hafted greenstone Maori adze loaned to the museum by David King for Polynesian exhibit 1978.
Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-5864, described as Figurine; bone carving of a Russian; flat. Collector nos.: "73? 74?" (added in pen).
Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-4787, described as Standing figurine on damaged base, human hair embedded in scalp, figure surmounted by animal head. Carved wood with black and red pigments. Oblong object held in right hand. On base: "[souther] n Alaska [presen]ted by Hon. L. B. Mizner May 77;". The figure is probably a doctor (shaman). Animal at top is his messenger (mink?) whose power the doctor obtained by cutting its tongue (fide Charles Brown, June 1964).
Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-5868, described as Figurine; ivory carving of men wrestling.
Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-5867, described as Figurine; ivory carving of men wrestling.
Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorph, accession number 2-4623, described as Totemic man. Legs broken.
Hearst Museum object titled Armor, accession number 11-1068, described as Woven armor for legs and body

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