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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 2-6596, 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 Harpoon, accession number 2-6317, described as Sea otter harpoon
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 2-6592, 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 Kayak model, accession number 2-6439, described as 2-hatch, wood frame, rawhide cover with 2 figures wearing cotton shirts and mufflers and sealskin parkas. Full set of 9 spears, wood.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 2-6643, described as Braided sinew, ornamented with red, white and blue yarn. Looped to attach dart head.

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