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Woven belt with bone attachments. Wide belt is made in a tight basket weave from thin strips of light and dark brown leather. Buckle is made of two pieces of bone, smoothly carved into rectangles, with a prong nailed to one that fits into a tube joint in the other. Several figures are etched into the bone, including a hunter and a woman in lightweight clothing, and tools such as an oil lamp, ulu, and chopper, among others. Back of belt has similar pieces attached, with images including a walrus and person paddling a boat. Two small undecorated buttons and a long undecorated loop are also attached to the back. Many of the images are accompanied by small Inuktitut syllabics.
Sealskin pouch. Small bag is rounded on bottom with a flap covering the opening at top. No handles are present. Bag is made from light brown leather with dark brown piping at the edges, and circular and square patches of the same set at regular intervals on front and edge for decoration. A curved piece of bone, flattened on front surface, serves as a handle for the flap and is etched and painted with the silhouette of a seal. A tie is attached to two of the decorative circles on the front, which loops over the bone to hold the pouch closed.
Two model harpoons, lashed together in a cross-shape with a leather thong. Each has a wood handle, squared and thick at top, narrowing toward bottom where the larger one is capped by a small rounded piece of antler. The tops of each hold a pointed rod of tusk attached to the handle by strips of leather that pierce the wood and antler, and are tied off along the shaft. The thongs attaching the harpoons hold small projectile points, one of metal set in antler, the other with both point and body carved of antler.
Whale bone figure. A woman stands on a small, irregularly shaped platform, wearing a parka that gathers at the waist and falls to the knees, slightly longer on the back hem. The hood is up over her head and her round face has carved nose, eyes and mouth in a downcast expression. Arms are held down and slightly away from her sides. The edge of the parka at hood, wrists, and bottom hem have an encircling, incised line for decoration.
Model stone oil lamp. Lamp (part a) is triangular in shape, concave on top surface, with intersecting ridges on the base that come to a point at centre. Bone wick (part b) is wide and slightly curved, carved with a series of regularly spaced grooves at top. Wood posts attach it to holes along the lamp's long edge. The small stone pot (part c) is rectangular, with a twisted, rigid sinew rope tied though holes at each corner. Rope fits into ridges carved into one end of the bone pot holder (part d), which bends in the centre and sits in a hole on the lamp’s edge. Lamp rests on a triangular stone stand (part e) with a raised ring at centre. Three wooden posts (part f, g, h) support the lamp above the stand.
Doll wearing an amautik parka. Female doll has a head and face carved from antler, with inset eyes and mouth, and wide, slightly protruding nose. Black wool is attached to head for hair with a long ponytail at back. Doll’s parka and pants are made from half-tanned leather. Jacket has an amaut pouch attached at back for carrying a small child. Jacket shoulders have a fringe of beading, and beads are also attached at wrists, on amaut, and along hem front and back just above a short dense leather fringe. Pants are beaded at bottom, and end just above leather boots that have a heavy covering of fur.
Whale vertebra figure resembling the head of an owl. Two transversal holes represent the eyes; relief nose and flat base. Organic residues in the base (possibly fibre). Unbroken.
Bird pendant, made of polished bone. Pointed beak is facing upwards, square and incised body with a small suspension hole at its back; triangular base. Orange-red and black pigment in grooves. Well preserved.
Tool with flattened sides, used for burnishing ceramics. One side is slightly raised and the other has a circular hole. Well preserved.