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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 2-6665, described as Arrow
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6622, described as Arrow. Unilateraly barbed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew; fletching lost on proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq. Used for hunting big game.
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 2-6718, described as Hunting arrow. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Copper blade inserted into barbed antler foreshaft, the latter secured to the main wood shaft with twisted sinew; feathers at proximal notched end; sections of shaft painted red. Used with sinew backed bow to hunt caribou.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6596, described as Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Arrow barbed iron point inserted into wooden shaft; twisted sinew winding secures the point; cylindrical shaft painted red, notched at proximal end; three white feathers set radially at proximal end. Center of gravity in middle of shaft. For shooting at close range.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5803, described as Light skin, with feather and colored string decorations. Gut fringed on 3 sides. Brown dyed gut (?) inserts, red wool trim attached with cross-stitch embroidery. Plaited sinew carrying cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6610, described as Bow, child's; wood, wrapped with sinew. Missing since 1959. Made for children, training boys.

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