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Oval shaped seal skin with image sewn into the main skin using a patchwork technique. The main skin is lighter at the sides and dark down the centre. Light and dark pieces of seal skin are used to create the image of two Inuit people facing forward. The edge of the skin has holes cut into it for stretching or hanging on a frame, with a strip of leather strung through several holes at the top. The back shows the seams where all the pieces of skin have been sewn together. There are green Holman Island stamps on the back of the skin.
Rectangular seal skin with image sewn into the main skin using a patchwork technique. Lighter pieces of seal skin are used to create the images of an Inuit hunter with a spear pointed toward a seal under a curve of ice(?), with border designs at each end. The back shows the seams where all the pieces of skin have been sewn together. There are green Holman Island stamps on the back of the skin.
Carved tupilaq (tupilak). The head of the creature appears to be an animal with black circular eyes, a large snout with big round nostrils, an open mouth with four canines and its tongue sticking out through the teeth. The body of the creature is in the position of someone crawling on all fours with their arms bent, but also with a small carved point where a tail would be.
Model drying rack with three parts: two wooden sticks with short metal spikes protruding from the bottom end, attached to each other near the top with sinew strung through holes bored through the centre of each stick (a); wooden stick with a short metal spike protruding from one end (b); short, flat, slightly convex piece of wood that tapers towards either end (c).
Deer fashioned from the tip of an antler (a) with detachable front legs (b) and two flying geese (c,d) perched on two poles (e, f) that stick into its back. A piece with joined ears is attached with a bone peg at the back of the head. The eyes of the deer are filled with blackened bone.
Stone carving of a man struggling to pull his walrus kill over the ice.
Sculpture carved in polished greenish black stone, depicting a creation story of Raven the Creator pulling man from a seedpod. Flat base area of sculpture is unpolished gray.
Miniature forty piece tea set carved of walrus tusk: teapot with lid (a-b), sugar bowl with lid (c-d), milk jug (e), 4 cups (f-i), 4 saucers (j-m), 4 teaspoons (n-q), 4 knives (r-u), 4 forks (v-y), 4 soup spoons (z-cc), 1 mug (dd), 5 plates (ee-ii), 1 round lidded dish (jj-kk), and a rectangular lidded dish (ll-mm) and platter (nn). Around the tops of the teapot, sugar bowl, jug, mug and lidded dishes is a ring of inlay red, blue and green circles of plastic.
Outer boots (also see boots a-b, and inner boots c-d and e-f) that have skin soles and uppers. Bands of purple ribbon are sewn around the ankle and the top of the upper. Each has a fabric cuff with orange and black wool drawstring that threads through loops of skin on the sides of boots a-b, and ties at the front of the ankle.
Inner boots (also see boots a-b, inner boots c-d, and outer boots g-h) that are a pair of tall inner boots made from off-white wool with a folded cuff that has a floral design in green, yellow, and blue and an x design border in pink and black. The seams are stitched with blue and teal thread.