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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze blade, accession number 2-11854, described as Basalt.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze blade, accession number 2-11872, described as Chert.
Hearst Museum object titled Angyaq model, accession number 2-19148, described as Wood frame with rawhide cover. The prow and sides are decorated with red worsted. Red, blue and white cotton threads are plaited together and sewn to prow. Seal whiskers also used. 11 figures in boat holding paddles or weapons, wearing sealskin parkas and wood hats variously decorated with red and blue paint in abstract designs. 9 paddles, two of which are broken.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Animal figure, accession number 2-683, described as Carved ivory figure of an animal
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Animal figure, accession number 2-657, described as Carved ivory figure of an animal
Hearst Museum object titled Animal figure, accession number 2-708, described as Carved ivory head of a seal.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-13615, described as Feathered harpoon arrow; painted, red-painted wood mainshaft, bone foreshaft with red-stained incised longitudinal grooves and whale tooth inlay; bone point has 3 barbs on one side only and is attached by plaited sinew line; fletched.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-19437, described as With bone foreshaft; bone barbed point with 3 barbs on one side only, attached by plaited sinew line with remnants of red and blue yarn; red-stained wood mainshaft, damaged fletching. Bone foreshaft with red-stained longitudinal grooves and whaletooth inlay.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6668, described as Harpoon arrow, bone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves with whale tooth insets is damaged at basal end and has base of point broken off in it (missing). Red stained wood shaft, plaited sinew line. Fletched. Feathers.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6597, described as Sea otter dart shaft; wood carved to a circular section, proximal end broken; at distal end bone socket with a very fine sinew winding wrapped on top of a layer of birch bark; wrapped on shaft, remnants of dart line made of braided sinew fibers, cut at end probably to remove dart head, now missing.

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