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Start Over Object name Harpoon Collection place Southwest Coast, Alaska Donor Benjamin Bristol
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6573, described as Red-brown painted shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6317, described as Sea otter harpoon
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6364, described as Decorated with feathers. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line. Feathers at proximal end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6359, described as Feather and bone end. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6350, described as Seal harpoon with bladder. Wood shaft painted red fore and aft, black in center. Line is braided sinew cord with long hair inserted, skin float with bone mouthpiece stopper missing. Bone poinnt has two barbs on one side, damaged tip. large point carved from bone (jaw), barbed on one side; attached to a line made of braided sinew biforked after 124 cm, the two ends (c. 90 cm long) are attached to the wooden shaft, respectively at 81 & 151 cm from distal end. Used in the summer. Native names: ayaquq, mangkuuliaq.
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 2-6365, described as Decorated with feathers. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line. Butt end found damaged during August 1988; repaired by conservator. Whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone tip with three unilateral barbs secured with Y-shaped braided sinew dart line; feathers at proximal end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6360, described as Feather and bone end. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6590, described as Red-brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.

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