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Start Over Object class Spearheads (projectile points) Media available legacy documentation Culture or time period Alaskan Eskimo
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spearhead, accession number 2-989, described as Conical piece of ivory with perforation. May also be an arrowhead.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spearhead, accession number 2-66938, described as Ivory. double barbed with hole for attaching line. Shaft mounted by whisker (possibly seal) in octagonal socket of fossil walrus ivory. Color is yellow brown.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-4382, described as Could also be harpoon point. Barbed, antler. Ivory; hole near the tang to attach the leader; oblong in section with sharp edge; symmetrical shape with 5 barbs to maximize the anchorage into the prey. The rhomboidal section indicates that the wound was made through soft tissues. Native name: cingileq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-534, described as Antler. Fine barbs on two edges. May also be an arrow point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-530, described as Antler. Fine barbs along part of one edge. May also be an arrow point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-65798, described as Carved bone, concave, three barbs on one side, two on other side.
Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-538, described as Antler. Partially barbed along one edge.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-522, described as Ivory, curved, partially barbed on one edge. May also be an arrow point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-62037, described as Fossil" ivory, single perforation for cord attachment, hollowed out at one end. May also be harpoon point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 2-59578, described as Barbed on one edge, bone with incised diagonals near base. Bone.

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