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Title: Descriptive booklet on the Alaska historical museum
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Alaska Historical Library and Museum Kashevaroff, Andrew P., b. 1863 Alaska Historical Association
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Publisher: Juneau, Alaska
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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different kinds of bulbousvegetables which grow in the Northduring the summer months are pre-served in oil for winter use. In this room there are many othervery interesting objects such as ivorydrill bows with pictorial writing; frag-ments of broken bows and drill bowswith graphic description of hunts andceremonial dancing; very perfect drillpoints of jade, flint and hard stone; avery old and rare handle from a cere-monial bucket made from mastodonivory with a record of whales killed bythe owner, and many others. A tempered copper bracelet made bythe Eskimo of St. Michael is exhibitedhere, showing that the art of temper-ing copper is not a lost art to theaboriginal tribes. Hair Ornaments and Combs. Dr. E- W. Nelson in The EskimoAbout the Bering Strait, says: Thetonsure is universally practiced by theEskimo. The general style is to shavethe top of the head leaving a narrowfringe of hair about the border, whichusually is kept trimmed evenly two orthree inches in length around the head.
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50 ALASKA HISTORICAL MUSEUM The women dress their hair by part-ing it along the median line and ar-ranging it in a pendant braid or club-shaped mass behind the ear. South ofYukon mouth the women are especiallyfond of ornamenting the pendant rollsor braids of hair by hanging bands andstrings of beads upon them with ivoryornaments attached, some of which arefigured. They usually represent thefaces of animals or grotesque semi-human creatures. In the collection there are combsmade from ivory, bone and horn usedin hair dresing. Combs made of a sec-tion of a beam of antlers, hollowed outand cut into teeth on the end, are usedto remove loosened hair on deer-skingarments. Some are made with teethon one end and others with teeth onboth ends. One specimen in the col-lection from St. Lawrence Island ismade of walrus ivory. These combs,as well as the comb-like implementswith three or four teeth, are used individing loosened fibers of sinew andgrass for thread. The sinew from thelegs or neck of r

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