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Start Over Collection place Alaska Accession year [Missing] Function 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishing lure and sinker, accession number 2-62063, described as Oblong. Red stone body with ivory head attached with sinew thong. Head has baleen eyes above and below and blue glass seed beads and bits of sinew attached through hole in "nose". Sinew thong at back.
Hearst Museum object titled Float (fishing), accession number 2-69116, described as Made of skin or bladder. Holes in skin are plugged with wooden pegs and teeth.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Float (fishing), accession number 2-65935, described as Seal breathen". Weathered root resembling seal, blue glass bead inlaid eyes and nose. On chest is walrus ivory stirrup ornamented with 2 seal heads also of walrus ivory. Inlaid baleen eyes in larger head, one of four drilled holes in other still has baleen in it. 2 large perforations at back end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62080, described as Incomplete. Thick, heavy, red stained wood shaft. Flanged whalebone foreshaft with large opening for point attached by sinew cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62081, described as Incomplete. Wood shaft with ivory finger rest and small ivory projection. Whalebone foreshaft, point missing. Sinew cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62079, described as Red-stained wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, walrus ivory double barbed point attached to sealskin thong. Sinew lines, projecting bone or ivory finger rest.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Net, accession number 2-3854, described as Rawhide net
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sinker (fishing), accession number 2-9188, described as Oblong sinker/lure. "Fossil" ivory. Perforated, found with lead at large end, three pegs of ivory inserted in the middle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sinker (fishing), accession number 2-9187, described as Oblong smooth stone, grooved and perforated at each end. Mottled brown and white.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sinker (fishing), accession number 2-9186, described as Mammoth tooth partially perforated at each end, possibly used as a sinker.

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