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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19346, described as Ivory foreshaft and point; point barbed on two sides, attached with sinew.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3051, described as Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft. Bone head with 3 unilateral barbs, plaited sinew lines.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6573, described as Red-brown painted shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19349, described as Ivory foreshaft weighted with lead plugs. Wood shaft. Point (barbed on two sides) missing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-14893, described as Foreshaft made of sperm whalebone from an earlier spear; barb of walrus ivory; wood shaft painted with duck blood and black rock. Point barbed on one side.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-45810, described as Harpoon arrow; fletched, with foreshaft of whalebone and detachable unilaterally barbed point. Length 84.7 cm
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-36642, described as Red stained wood shaft, bone foreshaft, feathers in poor condition. Point missing. Made with painted wood and whalebone, and plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19424, described as Whalebone foreshaft, point missing. Red-painted wood shaft.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19350, described as Wood with ivory foreshaft. Separate ivory point barbed on two sides. Sinew and cord used to attach foreshaft and point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-13614, described as Fletched, reddish-brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line.

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