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Start Over Object name Harpoon Culture or time period Alaskan Eskimo Materials Wood (plant material)
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 2-6321, 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 2-6402, 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 2-6400, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed attached to a braided sinew string tied to shaft 76 cm from tip of socket; cylindrical bone socket mortised to receive the distal end of shaft; winding of twisted sinew; continuing as a retaining line wrapped on shaft; twisted sinew mortised to receive distal end of shaft; three radial feathers at proximal end tied with very thin twisted sinew; cylindrical blade. 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 2-6398, 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 2-6403, 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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6359, described as Feather and bone end. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6299, described as Feathered; bone foreshaft attached to wooden shaft; ivory tip attached with thong; feathered at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6404, described as Feathered; ivory point broken, barbed bilaterally attached to an Y-shaped leather thong tied 34 & 75 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into the distal end of wood shaft; binding of twisted sinew string reaching the next attachment of dart line; proximal end not feathered. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.

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