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    • Halibut Hook

    • Halibut Hook

    • The hook is made in two pieces of wood, lashed together with root and a rusty nail lashed on with root and string. The top piece of wood has a figure holding a creature by the legs. This symbolizes the story of Blackskin (see remarks), a man of the...

    • UAMN76
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Wood Mask

    • Wood Mask

    • The wooden mask is carved in an elongated oval shape, with a polished smooth surface. The wood is very dark in color. The face shows arching brows and a small ridge running vertically on the forehead from between the eyes to the top of the mask....

    • UAMN84
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Wood Mask

    • Wood Mask

    • A leaf shaped, wooden mask (28 x 17 x 6.5 cm), with distinctive horizontal ridges as forehead/top of head and chin, and three concentric circular ridges ringing central facial features. Eyes are leaf-shaped slits below one of the ridges, slightly...

    • UAMN86
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Sewing Kit

    • Sewing Kit

    • (A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...

    • UAMN89
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Sewing Kit

    • Sewing Kit

    • (A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...

    • UAMN90
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Nepcetaq Mask

    • Nepcetaq Mask

    • Large wooden shield-shaped mask with a round face in the center with pegged teeth. Several fish protrude through the shield of the mask. "No. 1" is written in pen on the back of mask. Blue, red and white pigment are used on the surface.¬ulture:...

    • UAMN96
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Baby Carrier

    • Baby Carrier

    • Shallow birch bark with spruce root sewing and willow rimrod all the way around with 2 willow side braces. No trim on back but has leather band attached at lower rim. Two sets of leather tying straps attached to band - trimmed with blue rick rack...

    • UAMN143
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Walrus Mask

    • Walrus Mask

    • Katexac, Bernard (artist). Walrus mask; stained red; holes for whiskers; stained black; two wooden natural color tusks set in; seal skin thong for fastener; 22.2 cm long; crack in left cheek; signed "Bernard Katexac - 68" on back of mask.¬ulture:...

    • UAMN127
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Drum and Stick

    • Drum and Stick

    • David, Jonathon (maker). Drum: frame of birch wood; sewn with babiche; head varies from 28.5 cm to 30 cm across; frame 6.5 cm deep; drum head of moose or caribou skin; lashed on at back with babiche; handle is forked caribou antler still in...

    • UAMN135
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Drum and Stick

    • Drum and Stick

    • David, Jonathon (maker). Drum: frame of birch wood; sewn with babiche; head varies from 28.5 cm to 30 cm across; frame 6.5 cm deep; drum head of moose or caribou skin; lashed on at back with babiche; handle is forked caribou antler still in...

    • UAMN136
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Beaded Bible Cover

    • Beaded Bible Cover

    • Beaded bible cover (5.5 in. x 9.125 in. flat) with 1 in. tab for fastening. Cross done in beads on front cover; Cross on front in brown beads; "suns" and half-circles in red, pink, blue, yellow and light green; edging in pink and brown; background...

    • UAMN170
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Beaded Bible Cover

    • Beaded Bible Cover

    • Beaded bible cover (5.5 in. x 9.125 in. flat) with 1 in. tab for fastening. Cross done in beads on front cover; Cross on front in brown beads; "suns" and half-circles in red, pink, blue, yellow and light green; edging in pink and brown; background...

    • UAMN171
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Beaded Bible Cover

    • Beaded Bible Cover

    • Beaded bible cover (5.5 in. x 9.125 in. flat) with 1 in. tab for fastening. Cross done in beads on front cover; Cross on front in brown beads; "suns" and half-circles in red, pink, blue, yellow and light green; edging in pink and brown; background...

    • UAMN172
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Beaded Mat

    • Beaded Mat

    • Jones, Laura (artist). Beaded mat (5.25 in. diameter) with white seed bead background and 3 flowers: dark red, royal blue, and dark blue seed and tubular beads, stems and 2 tones of green leaves. Two separate flowers are on the mat, one pink with...

    • UAMN173
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Dagger

    • Dagger

    • This eagle-headed dagger has a tapered copper blade with a medial ridge running down the front of the blade. The reverse is a flat surface showing marks of the original working of the material. The carved head and hand grip are one piece of wood...

    • UAMN174
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Dagger

    • Dagger

    • This eagle-headed dagger has a tapered copper blade with a medial ridge running down the front of the blade. The reverse is a flat surface showing marks of the original working of the material. The carved head and hand grip are one piece of wood...

    • UAMN175
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Model Dwelling

    • Model Dwelling

    • Model of St. Lawrence Island dwelling; wooden framework covered with pieces of seal skin (hair in) and a piece of de-haired and bleached sealskin as the roof; gives a translucent light; may be inadvertent (i.e., the real houses may not have had...

    • UAMN176
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Raven in the Pink

    • Raven in the Pink

    • Schoppert, James (artist). Size: 65 x 40 x 4.25 in. Medium: Carved wood panel, paint Nine boards of varying lengths attached to two curved cross pieces at back; painted light blue and shadings of white, pink, and gray; 39.75 in. across; 65 in....

    • UAMN263
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North

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