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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-62062, described as 5 carved pieces of ivory and bone tied together by sinew cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishing lure and sinker, accession number 2-62063, described as Oblong. Red stone body with ivory head attached with sinew thong. Head has baleen eyes above and below and blue glass seed beads and bits of sinew attached through hole in "nose". Sinew thong at back.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62080, described as Incomplete. Thick, heavy, red stained wood shaft. Flanged whalebone foreshaft with large opening for point attached by sinew cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62081, described as Incomplete. Wood shaft with ivory finger rest and small ivory projection. Whalebone foreshaft, point missing. Sinew cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62079, described as Red-stained wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, walrus ivory double barbed point attached to sealskin thong. Sinew lines, projecting bone or ivory finger rest.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62078, described as Walrus ivory foreshaft, seal intestine (?) float with ivory nozzle. Red stained wood shaft with cotton lines.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon dart, accession number 2-62077, described as Fletched, foreshaft missing. bone point with single barb on one side, 2 barbs on other. 2 rows of feathers, all cotton cordage, red stained wood shaft.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon dart, accession number 2-62075, described as Fletched, whalebone foreshaft, red stained wood shaft. Point missing, plaited sinew lines.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon dart, accession number 2-62074, described as Fletched, whalebone foreshaft, wood shaft, point missing. Sinew and cotton lines.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon dart, accession number 2-62067, described as Fletched, walrus ivory foreshaft, wood shaft with some red pigment, bone point with 2 basal barbs and one side barb. Commercial cotton cordage line.

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