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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6621, described as Arrow, unilateraly barbed bone point set into wooden shaft, lashed wih sinew; fletching lost on proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6378, described as Harpoon arrow. Wood shaft, bone socket piece, bone barbed point attached with seal thong line. Fletching destroyed (only quill stubs left). Very short & dull bone point attached to a short leather thong tied to shaft at 51 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of wooden shaft; winding of twisted sinew, and short retaining line of leather; socket weighted with lead.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4713, described as Long sharp pointed ivory point, triangular in section. Wooden shaft, notched on proximal end; long, pointed bone point, triangular in section; feathers lost; fiber binding. Designed to produce heavy bleeding. Native names: pitegcaun, qerruq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6601, described as Small, bi-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; proximal end feathered. Native names: pitegcauksar, akitnaq. Bird arrow used for training boys.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6611, described as Bird arrow. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. Small, single serrated bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew, feathers at proximal end. Used for bird hunting.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6663, described as Flint point. Chipped flint point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6614, described as Small, single serrated bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew; feathers at proximal end. Used for summer fishing. Native names: pitegcaun, neqsuun.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6714, described as With bone point; red-stained wood mainshaft, bone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves and whale tooth inlay; point has 3 barbs on one side and is attached by a plaited sinew line with remnants of red wool yarn; no fletching as that end is badly damaged. Whalebone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft and secrued with braided sinew; unilaterally barbed ivory tip secured with braided sinew; feathers and proximal end lost. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6597, described as Sea otter dart shaft; wood carved to a circular section, proximal end broken; at distal end bone socket with a very fine sinew winding wrapped on top of a layer of birch bark; wrapped on shaft, remnants of dart line made of braided sinew fibers, cut at end probably to remove dart head, now missing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6662, described as Bone point. Unilaterally serrated, sharply pointed bone point inserted into wooden shaft; head inserted into wood shaft; feathers at proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq.

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