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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 2-6665, described as Arrow
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6660, described as Deer arrow. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. unilaterally barbed point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end. For hunting land animals.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6715, described as Big game hunting arrow. With ivory or bone point inserted into wooden shaft and secured with braided sinew; feathers at proximal end; point & shaft decorated with red color.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4712, described as Serrated bone head. wooden shaft, notched on proximal end; three feathers; serrated bone point; root binding. Native names: pitegcaun, nesquun. Used for summer fishing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4710, described as Arrow. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Wooden shaft; notched end, bone point serrated one side, barbed on the other and bi-pointed, incised with parallel lines and stained with red pigment; sinew fiber lashing; two radially set feathers. Used for hunting land animals.
Hearst Museum object titled Digging implement, accession number 2-30931, described as Whale rib root digging implement; length: 54 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6350, described as Seal harpoon with bladder. Wood shaft painted red fore and aft, black in center. Line is braided sinew cord with long hair inserted, skin float with bone mouthpiece stopper missing. Bone poinnt has two barbs on one side, damaged tip. large point carved from bone (jaw), barbed on one side; attached to a line made of braided sinew biforked after 124 cm, the two ends (c. 90 cm long) are attached to the wooden shaft, respectively at 81 & 151 cm from distal end. Used in the summer. Native names: ayaquq, mangkuuliaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6591, described as Red-painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs; fletched; plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6369, described as Bone foreshaft inserted into wooden shaft, painted red; bone point with three unilateral barbs secured with Y-shaped braided sinew dart line; feathers at proximal notched end. Damaged while on loan to Heard Museum, Loan 564-65 #72.

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