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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio track, accession number 24-317.2g, described as Undocumented track. Reel-to-reel audio recording of track on glass base disc record. See accession envelope for additional information. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio track, accession number 24-316.2h, described as Undocumented track. Reel-to-reel audio recording of track on glass base disc record. See accession envelope for additional information. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio track, accession number 24-315.2b, described as Thanks song. See accession envelope for additional information. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio track, accession number 24-317.2b, described as Young Doctor song. See accession envelope for additional information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio track, accession number 24-317.2c, described as Song about a bird talking. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio track, accession number 24-318.2e, described as First young Doctor song. LG NOTE: probably [a] used tape. See accession envelope for additional information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Audio track, accession number 24-315.2f, described as Cole Phillippines dubbings. See accession envelope for additional information.
Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 5-17011, described as Dance axe with carved wooden handle and hand forged bladed. Blade is "T" shaped with an arc shaped blade edge. Handle is straight, tapered, & flared at base and finished with a large egg-shaped knob at top. Tang of blade come through the back of the top knob and is bent upward. A band of wire is 2 cm below the knob. 1962.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-72553, described as Beaded hide bag, with black velvet, drawstring upper. One side beaded with an 8-pointed star, formed by 2 interlocking squares, one blue and one red. Center is beaded with pale yellow beads, in the middle of which is a swastika of navy blue iridescent beads. Background is of translucent, clear beads on a hide base. Verso is beaded with very tiny blue seed beads forming the ground for two red roses with green leaves and stems in two shades of green, all of which are faceted beads. The beaded portion of the bag is edged with a band of iridescent navy-blue beads, and finished with 8 navy-blue iridescent bead-string-tassels along the base. 4 tassels of 4 strings are intact. The other 4 are missing meads of one or more strands. Drawstring is missing from the top of the bag. Given to donor by a Makah Woman in 1942 who said that she had been given this as a potlatch gift some years earlier.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 11-45534, described as Woven, open mesh, string bag with drawstring closure. Woven of fiber that is variegated in color so that bag varies from ecru to caramel to sepia to taupe in 25-30 bands of color. Purchased from Yirrkala Arts and Crafts, Yirrkala, Northern Territories, by Nancy Williams. Gifted by Ms. Williams to Elizabeth Colson.

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