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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1626, described as Made of wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened cross-hatching. Wood stoppers in shape of fish head and tail.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1636, described as Birdbone, with incised and darkened cross-hatching. No stoppers.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1619, described as Made of birdbone. Incised and darkened chevrons and lines. Wood stoppers in shape of fish head and tail. Materials: wingbone of large waterfowl, wood, blue-green and red pigment.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-16728, described as Made of ivory. Formerly had ivory stopper. Ethnological. Incised and darkened diamond, circles with dots. Flippers in low relief. Represents body of seal.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-65813, described as Ivory tube broadened by a ridge on each side at one end with a small knob on each side, incised design. Wooden plug blocks rounded end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1648, described as Made from wingbone of large waterfowl, wood. Incised and darkened encircling bands and cross-hatching. Fish head shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-6758, described as Made from wingbone of large water fowl.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-7061, described as Made of ivory and bone. Incised and darkened chevrons, circles with dots. Inset wood plug at one end, wood fishtail plug other end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-545a, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-7117, described as Made of ivory, with sealskin cord through center. Bunch of charm carvings, canine teeth (26 pieces), pendant from cord. Carvings include miniature animals and tools.

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