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Three sided bowl with rounded corners. Wide straight red-brown rim with two indented horizontal lines around circumference. Inner rim is beveled and flush joint shows faintly at outside. Brown bowl tapers to flat bottom. Centre bottom has small rectangular hole with six faint incised lines radiating out. Inner surface is rounded with a black rounded triangular insect-like creature painted at centre. Creature has a series of tiny vertical lines out from tail, bent legs on either side of head, tiny fin-like appendages above each leg, circular eyes and nostrils, and wide curved mouth with tiny lines indicating teeth. Three pronged line extensions from body.
Oval, human face mask with sculpture features, raised eyebrows curving into realistic nose with nostril holes, high cheeks, almond shaped eyes holes in depressions, and mouth slit in slightly raised area. Hole at top centre to back. Two holes on each side about 6 cm. apart with wire braided wire passing along sides, across back, connected and twisted together at centre. White numbers on back read '26746'.
Oval, roughly carved face mask with green-brown stain and patchy grey pigment overall. Seal head appendage at top. Dark brown seal has incised eye slits and wide mouth slit. Notches indicate nostrils. Forehead of mask is higher than plane of face. Long, narrow, nose is nailed on with three metal nails. Nose is stained dark brown with red under stain and at bottom, scraped to bare wood at tip. Almond shaped eye holes below sloped lids. Two small holes below nose and downturned mouth hole with black over red lips. A hole on each side has a two strand twine cord tied between. Back is very uneven. Black #12 above #311 on side and faded '26920-2' in white.
Oval, stylized, dark brown human face with triangular nose. Face slopes off on either side and slopes off under nostril holes. Mouth is semi-circular hole, flat along bottom with carved Chinese-style green glass beads nailed just below mouth on either side. Series of pencil ? v's along a line from either side of mouth extending out to sides of mask. Curved pencil lines above almond shaped eye holes. A brittle hide ? strip passes through and is tied at small holes on either side of mask. Strip is knotted at centre. Back surface is smooth except at bevelled areas around holes and nose indentation. Black letters on one side read 'Nesk.20.p' and white numbers at bottom read '23757'.
Double-ended paddle with adze and carving marks overall. Central portion is rounded in cross-section, widening at each end to paddles which are slightly convex on one side, flat on the other. Paddle is bowed.
Skin covered kayak with a single angled cockpit; relatively flat on top and keel; rounded bow tapers to a point and raises slightly from bottom; stern also tapers to a point and is raised from bottom. Series of evenly spaced (where visible) ribs attach to gunwales; ribs are flat on bottom and curve sharply at sides. Three longitudinal keel supports and additional supports around and extending from cockpit. Numerous skins are sewn together, covering kayak; the skin is sewn to a bent wood rim at cockpit. In front of cockpit is a bone support attached to top, side of kayak by a leather thong which passes through two holes on base of the support and through two holes on either side of kayak. There is a rope attached to the back of the cockpit on both sides. The skin covering is pieced by stitching in numerous places.
Round, stylized human face mask with sides sloping up to eyebrows and mouth. Mouth is curved slit with flattened lip. Thin almond shaped eye holes on slope below curved brow ridge. Triangular nose in high relief. Faint dark triangle on chin, bands below nose indicating a moustache, also eyebrows and hair. Small holes drilled on either side. Evenly spaced series of holes along edge of mask do not go through to back. Screwed in metal hook at top centre back. Back surface is rough with 'nesk-7-ex' in black and '2-11991' in white letters. White stain on face.
Brown bentwood oval box with lid (part b). Box is one piece, with bent sides with bevelled edges forming a flush side, sewn together with two parallel rows of baleen(?) and leather. Rectangular walrus tusk clasp between sewn rows with hooked appendage and six holes (or sets of holes), two form 'eyes' with hook as 'nose', attached through holes with leather strips. Two parallel grooves at top and bottom of sides. On opposite side is second walrus tusk rectangle with five sets of holes with leather strips attaching it to box. One top corner has wooden pegged (three) strip of wood; a longer damaged pegged (six) strip on end. Two holes on non-clasp side for attaching lid to box. Both are broken, remnants of one are on box, the other. Lid has a horizontal row on top of 7 beads with the central bead being light blue and the others being dark blue.
Stylized human figure which follows the form of a vertebral spine with a sawn heart-shaped face. The face has a notch at top centre, line across forehead, holes (part way through) for oval eyes, small circles for nostrils and a crescent at mouth. Sawn, rounded shoulders; deep channel indicating arms which sweep down at sides; body expands out into partially eroded, squared off centrum. Phalange (of spine) extends out from sawn area below figure at back. Back side of figure has channels along arms.
Oval, green-brown face mask with smooth, contoured front surface. Eyebrow ridge forms a heart-shape with chin. Almond-shaped eye holes are deep-set, prominent high cheek, triangular nose with triangular nostrils at a ninety degree angle to face and mouth slit between thin dark pink-red wedge-shaped lips. Interior surface is grey-green with rough adze marks. Two small holes on either side of eyes. There is fishing line tied through the top set of holes. There are six other holes along the outside margin which do not go through to the inside. Hole at top back, slightly off-centre. Wood is checked at top margin.