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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19345, described as Ivory foreshaft and point; point barbed on two sides, attached with sinew.
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 2-6350, 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 2-6674, 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 2-19344, described as Ivory foreshaft; point barbed on two sides, attached with sinew. Red paint on base of foreshaft.
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 2-6573, described as Red-brown painted shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19343, described as Ivory foreshaft; point barbed on two sides.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6590, described as Red-brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6317, described as Sea otter harpoon

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