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Start Over Collection place Southern Alaska Culture or time period Alaskan cultures
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze blade, accession number 2-11854, described as Basalt.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Adze blade, accession number 2-11872, described as Chert.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-13615, described as Feathered harpoon arrow; painted, red-painted wood mainshaft, bone foreshaft with red-stained incised longitudinal grooves and whale tooth inlay; bone point has 3 barbs on one side only and is attached by plaited sinew line; fletched.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-19437, described as With bone foreshaft; bone barbed point with 3 barbs on one side only, attached by plaited sinew line with remnants of red and blue yarn; red-stained wood mainshaft, damaged fletching. Bone foreshaft with red-stained longitudinal grooves and whaletooth inlay.
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 2-6668, described as Harpoon arrow, bone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves with whale tooth insets is damaged at basal end and has base of point broken off in it (missing). Red stained wood shaft, plaited sinew line. Fletched. Feathers.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6665, described as Arrow
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6579, described as Harpoon arrow, whalebone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves with whale tooth insets. Point missing. Red stained wood shaft, plaited sinew and feathers.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-10904, described as Harpoon arrow. Copper point with 3 barbs on one side only; red stained wood mainshaft, bone foreshaft with longitudinal grooves with whale tooth inlay; plaited sinew line; fletched. Feathers.
Hearst Museum object titled Atlatl, accession number 2-4345, described as Throwing stick for sea otter spear

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