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Miniature, standing dog-like animal carved from white-yellow tusk with two black insets for eyes.
Large flat wood piece cut into a rectangle with one end shaped with a triangular point. Above, in the middle, there is an oval wood piece with the top centre cut out and the middle hollowed out so that a wood axle with wood pegs attached by sinew at each side can be attached to create a long wood lever with a point at the end, enabling it to stand upright at an angle.
Woman (part b) kneeling in front of stone lamp with various implements of stone and walrus tusk. Light grey colour. Her right hand holds an ulu (part i). To her right, there is a large stone chest ? (part d). In front of her, from left to right, there are the following: a rectangular stone piece which tapers down at one end and is covered with a flat layer of walrus tusk (part c), a circular stone dish (part e), and a triangular lamp (part f). Behind these three pieces (parts c, e, and f), there is a three-piece stand (part g) made of walrus tusk, from which hangs two stone moccassin boots on either sides of the rectangular stone cooking container in the middle attached with sinew. There is a small circular stone cup (part h) to one side, held in place with a wooden peg. Everything is on a main base (part a).
A yellow-white figure of an Eskimo in a kayak. Black dots to indicate facial features. Eskimo has his right arm held high with a spear, and his left arm held down with a paddle. Highly polished.
Miniature standing human figure carved from white tusk wearing a cap. Shallowly carved, linear facial features are coloured with dark grey pigment.
Miniature, carved, brown canine (wolf or dog?) with a stripe of mottled white dentine down the centre. The animal is standing upright on its hind legs, with a long tail curled behind. Entire figure is mounted on a base made from a cross-section of brown and white walrus tusk.
Model kayak made of mottled brown skin stretched over a wooden frame (part a). A parka-clad figure with face and hands made from carved walrus tusk (?) sits in the cockpit. Parts b--j are various model harpoons and gaffing devices--all made from wood, tusk, metal, and skin--strapped to the top of the kayak with skin straps. Also included is a dark brown model seal bladder float (part k) attached to the kayak via a skin harpoon line tucked underneath the human figure's right arm.
Needle case. Two brown wooden plugs at the ends of an ivory-coloured tube--tube in encircled at three points by linear geometric designs in black. One brown plug is rounded, the other a protruding, triangular point.
A lightly coloured piece with a blade and a handle decorated with carved lines painted black. The blade has two lines going across the top with seven dotted circles equally spaced alongside. Two other shorter lines goe across the bottom only halfway along the blade where they join into a partial arrow point. The handle is carved into an bird with eyes.
A light brown piece used as a landscape into which 21 little white birds are resting in their nests.