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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 Animal figure, accession number 2-683, described as Carved ivory figure of an animal
Hearst Museum object titled Animal figure, accession number 2-708, described as Carved ivory head of a seal.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Animal figure, accession number 2-657, described as Carved ivory figure of an animal
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6605, described as Small, quadra-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers, mostly lost, at notched proximal end. Bird arrow used for training boys. Native names: pitegcauksuar, akitnaq.
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 2-6714, 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 2-6597, 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.

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