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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 2-19346, described as Ivory foreshaft and point; point barbed on two sides, attached with sinew.
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 2-69171, described as Wood shaft with bone socketpiece. Bone barbed point attached with seal thong. Some plaited sinew wrapping. Fletched, bladder missing. Found mis-numbered in 1988 (had #2-6365 on it which belongs to a Kodiak harpoon arrow); ivory socket mortised to take the shaft's distal end; winding of braided sinew; retaining line lashed on shaft down to the lashing of the three. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19372, described as Wooden harpoon shaft without foreshaft or point. String lashings.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5832, described as Feathered harpoon, cf.2-5829 except:
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6321, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed attached to an Y-shaped leather thong tied at 25 & 86 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft wound with braided sinew; a hemp string connects this winding with the next attachment of dart line; two feathers at proximal end, bound to shaft with twisted sinew; brown colored wooden shaft, circular in section, tapering to the proximal end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19350, described as Wood with ivory foreshaft. Separate ivory point barbed on two sides. Sinew and cord used to attach foreshaft and point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6319, described as Harpoon
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5835, described as Feathered harpoon; cf. 2-5829 except point bilaterally barbed; ivory socket; one of three feathers lost. Used for summer sea hunting.

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