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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 2-6622, 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 2-6715, 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 2-6596, 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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6676, described as Bird arrow; point lost, wooden shaft; remnants of feathers at proximal end.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6354, described as Bow wrapped with string.
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.
Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6358, described as Wooden shaft, center grip narrowed. Full length sinew cable backing broken towards ends, attached at either side of grip and two sets of four wrappings near ends. Twisted sinew bowstring. wood, carved; front surface reinforced with a small bundle of sinew string, which is partly damaged; strong bow string of twisted sinew; section of wood is convex on front and flat on backside. Alutiiq name: qitguyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-7181, described as Long baseball-bat shape. Lathe-turned wood. Long and heavy cylindrical club, tapering to the handle. Fur seal (Callorhinus alascanus) club.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-6567, described as Long baseball-bat shape, distal part worn from use. Split in center. Lathe-turned wood. Long and heavy cylindrical club, tapering to the handle; worn from use, split along grain. Used for killing seals by Russian-Americans or ACC.

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