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Start Over Object class Projectile weapons Collection place Western Alaska Culture or time period Alutiiq
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 2-6622, 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 2-6718, described as Hunting arrow. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Copper blade inserted into barbed antler foreshaft, the latter secured to the main wood shaft with twisted sinew; feathers at proximal notched end; sections of shaft painted red. Used with sinew backed bow to hunt caribou.
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 2-4712, described as Serrated bone head. wooden shaft, notched on proximal end; three feathers; serrated bone point; root binding. Native names: pitegcaun, nesquun. Used for summer fishing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4710, described as Arrow. Native name: rruu'aq, rruq. Wooden shaft; notched end, bone point serrated one side, barbed on the other and bi-pointed, incised with parallel lines and stained with red pigment; sinew fiber lashing; two radially set feathers. Used for hunting land animals.
Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-4313, described as Ivory bolas, "quadruple bolas used in duck catching.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-6372, described as Sinew-backed, sinew wrappers, carved ivory section in center to tighten cable. Sinew bowstring has center wrapped with spruce root. Wood, carved; section of the wood mostly rectangular, a bit convex on backside; on front surface: reinforced with sinew cord wrapping, as well as its middle with a long antler slab (61 cm) placed between sinew & wood; on backside. Yup'ik name: urluveq.
Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-13613, described as Wood, single twisted sinew cable from end to end. Sinew bow string, twisted with red and blue yarn. tied at either side of center grip and near ends with sinew.
Hearst Museum object titled Spear-thrower, accession number 2-13612, described as Spruce (?). Sinew cordage over ivory hook, single finger peg, longitudinal groove.

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