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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5829, described as Feathered seal harpoon. Small bone point (barbed on one side) attached to a leather thong splitting at its ends to be connected at two places on the wooden shaft (Y-shaped harpoon line). Socket made of a heavy bone lashed with a braided sinew thread to the shaft.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6398, described as Feathered; ivory point bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong which is tied to the shaft (52 cm from tip of socket); ivory socket at distal end of shaft, wound with sinew thread & retaining line which reaches the binding of the three black feathers, one torn, at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6290, described as With bladder. Bone point bilaterally barbed, dart line of leather cut after 10 cm; commercial leather lace used to attach the point to the shaft, restored in 1980s; the dart line was attached to the shaft just below the socket. Used for hunting small sea mammals. Native names: narullkautaq, aklegaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6314, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong tied to shaft 21 cm from tip of socket; cylindrical ivory socket mortised for the distal end of shaft, wound with braided sinew (mixed with white quill); end of winding is lashed along the shaft. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6402, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied at 25 & 89 cm from tip of socket; ivory socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with braided sinew thread which extends to the next attachment of the dart line; two feathers attached with sinew at proximal end; circular wooden shaft partially painted red and black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6403, described as Feathered; incomplete, point missing; remnant of leather dart line attached to shaft 84 cm from tip of socket; ivory socket with four decorative circular incisions; mortised at its base to receive the distal end of the shaft; retaining line of twisted sinew along the shaft and connected to binding of three black feathers set at proximal end; cylindrical wooden shaft painted black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6309, described as Wood shaft with foreshaft of bone. Latter 3 sided fitted to wooden shaft by sinew lashings, pierced near base for reception of rawhide line by which it is attached to shaft. Spearhead also of bone, triangular shape with metal point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5834, described as Dart. Small bone point, bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong Y shaped harpoon line; ivory socket lashed with braided sinew to shaft; feathers at proximal end of shaft secured with braided sinew. Used for summer sea hunting. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
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.

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