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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19315, described as Harpoon with heavy ivory foreshaft, no point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-48493, described as Ivory tip, feathered decoration at rear of shaft, sinew and rawhide lines, foreshaft missing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62081, described as Incomplete. Wood shaft with ivory finger rest and small ivory projection. Whalebone foreshaft, point missing. Sinew cordage.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5831, described as Feathered harpoon; same as 2-5829 except point; point barbed on both sides. For summer sea hunting.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6296, described as Feathered; bone point unilaterally barbed, attached to dart line of leather, Y-shaped, tied to shaft 26 & 87 cm from socket tip; socket of bone set into distal end of shaft; short retaining line from socket to the first attachment of dart line; at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq. Used to hunt small sea mammals in the summer.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3048, 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 2-19322, described as Harpoon with ivory foreshaft, point missing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-1750, described as Ivory tipped seal harpoon.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19436, described as Whalebone foreshaft, bone point with 3 unilateral barbs. Red-stained wood shaft. Found inside quiver 2-19433.
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6307, described as Harpoon; antler point, barbed on both sides; attached to leather thong, tied to the shaft; bone finger rest shaped like a killer whale dorsal fin is lashed 56 cm down shaft; baculum bone & finger rest lashed to shaft with sinew; retaining line also made of sinew. Used for hunting sea mammals in the summer. Native name: nagiiquyaq.

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