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Inuits used these tools to make fishing nets. The handle tapers until it reaches the notch of the gauge. There is a hole in the end of the handle.

Bolas are thrown into flocks of birds to entangle them and bring them to the ground. This bola has seven cylindrical ivory pieces bound loosely together into a bunch with braided rope.

This was used to drag dead seals over the ice. Three pieces of ivory are used for handles that are threaded by stiff leather cord. Two of the ivory pieces appear to be carved into the shape of heads with blue beads for eyes, and the other piece is…

Ivory tipped harpoon with leather strapping. The leather strapping is wrapped around the harpoon and terminates at the end with the ivory where it is attached to a bone or wooden point. Tip has been colored with black pigment.

Unfinished wooden board for scaling fish. Trimmed on border with red pigment. Used in preparing fish for consumption.

Newspaper article by John Mark Lambertson and originally published by The Ottawa Herald August 27, 1988. Article is the second of two that follows the life of Kathrine Klinkenberg White.

Newspaper article by John Mark Lambertson originally published in The Ottawa Herald August 26, 1988, the first of a two-part series. The second as published in The Ottawa Herald August 27, 1988. Kathrine White was the daughter-in-law of Emporia…

Newspaper article by John Mark Lambertson and originally published in The Ottawa Herald December 15, 1987. Article tells of Diamond, a circus elephant who escaped while in Quenemo in December 1926 and rambled over Osage, Franklin, Coffey, Anderson…

Newspaper article by John Mark Lambertson and originally published by The Ottawa Herald August 18, 1987. Article describes the travels of Laura Ingalls Wilder's family through Franklin County as related in her diary "On the Way Home." This journey…

Newspaper article by John Mark Lambertson and originally published in The Ottawa Herald as three articles on March 29, 30, and 31, 1989. This is the title of the first one. The other titles are within the article. Lambertson uses diary form to…