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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6714, described as With bone point; red-stained wood mainshaft, bone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves and whale tooth inlay; point has 3 barbs on one side and is attached by a plaited sinew line with remnants of red wool yarn; no fletching as that end is badly damaged. Whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft and secrued with braided sinew; unilaterally barbed ivory tip secured with braided sinew; feathers and proximal end lost. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6596, described as Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Arrow barbed iron point inserted into wooden shaft; twisted sinew winding secures the point; cylindrical shaft painted red, notched at proximal end; three white feathers set radially at proximal end. Center of gravity in middle of shaft. For shooting at close range.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6676, described as Bird arrow; point lost, wooden shaft; remnants of feathers at proximal end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-7181, described as Long baseball-bat shape. Lathe-turned wood. Long and heavy cylindrical club, tapering to the handle. Fur seal (Callorhinus alascanus) club.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-6567, described as Long baseball-bat shape, distal part worn from use. Split in center. Lathe-turned wood. Long and heavy cylindrical club, tapering to the handle; worn from use, split along grain. Used for killing seals by Russian-Americans or ACC.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-6566, described as Long baseball-bat shape, distal part worn from use. Lathe-turned wood. Long & heavy cylindrical club, tapering to the handle; worn from use. For killing seals, by employees of the Russian-American or Alaska Commercial Company.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6674, described as Red-painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs; fletched; plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6573, described as Red-brown painted shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.

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