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Necklace composed of teeth strung alternatively with pale blue coloured glass beads, except for a short section composed of two large pale blue coloured globular Russian trade beads, two large oval pale pink coloured beads and two facetted tubular dark blue coloured beads.
Stylized, seated gull carved from weathered whale bone. Dense bone appears only at top of head and along part of one side. The rest is porous, darker bone. Bird's head is raised up with open beak and circular indentations for eyes. Series of parallel channels indicate wings. Clawed feet extend slightly out at front.
Porous whale bone head on a round base. Features include the following: short, parted hair, oval eyes, triangular nose and a crescent-shaped mouth.
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.
Figure of female form, flattened in cross-section with rectangle above featureless oval head. Carved diamond-shaped channel outlining slightly bulbous abdomen, large flat breasts, and legs truncated above knee. Back side is slightly concave and very porous. Rasp-like marks on side of one leg.
Carving of three walrus, in the Pangnirtung style. Two walrus are lying end to end with heads in opposite directions, while the third is on top. Each figure has two fore flippers, a carved nose, and ivory tusks. Much of the surface is textured by the foramina channels.
Curved piece of bone incised and carved with the figure of a sea creature, its head forming the top of the piece and the body most of the length. The lower end has the head and body of a human-like form. The creature has rounded bulging eyes and a large open mouth, six horizontal ridges across the top of its head, and four long scale-like features around its neck. The upper portion of the body has an incised grid-like pattern while the lower portion has a crescent-rib-shaped-like pattern. Horizontal ridges go along across the back. The human-like form has oval eyes with thick brows above, a flat triangular nose, and a thin closed mouth while the arms rest at either side.
Whalebone dagger with a bilaterally symmetrical blade that has a groove carved down the centre. Slim handle flares to a pointed oval at the end where there is a face carved. The face has circle in tapering oval eyes with brows above and an open mouth smiling with multiple teeth.
Whale vertebra formed into a pipe; hole drilled in the top and fitted with a copper bowl while a connecting hole is drilled in the back. Both sides cut and incised to depict the head of an animal; rectangular eyes inset with copper.
Whale tooth suspended on a cord of vegetable fibre.