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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 2-6370, described as Fletched. Red painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft and point. whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone tip with three unilateral barbs secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6299, described as Feathered; bone foreshaft attached to wooden shaft; ivory tip attached with thong; feathered at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5827, described as Seal harpoon, feathered. Antler point; symmetrically barbed, attached to leather thong, tied to shaft at socket binding; antler finger rest, in form of killer whale fin; bone socket set on top of shaft. Native name: naqiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6406, described as Feathered.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6404, described as Feathered; ivory point broken, barbed bilaterally attached to an Y-shaped leather thong tied 34 & 75 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into the distal end of wood shaft; binding of twisted sinew string reaching the next attachment of dart line; proximal end not feathered. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6399, described as Feathered.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5830, described as Feathered harpoon. Antler point bilaterally barbed; leather thong; antler finger rest; bone socket; feathered proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq. Used for summer sea hunting for seal, walrus, white whale. Used with a throwing board.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5833, described as Feathered harpoon; cf. 2-5829 except for point: point barbed on both sides. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6291, described as With bladder. bone point, barbed on both sides, attached to a leather thong tied to shaft at socket binding; bone finger rest shaped like a killer whale dorsal fin, is lashed 69 cm down to shaft; lashed with rawhide thong to the shaft; float has ivory mouthpiece. Used for hunting sea mammals. Native names: narullkautaq, aklegaq.

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