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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bolas, accession number 2-62062, described as 5 carved pieces of ivory and bone tied together by sinew cordage.
Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 2-58104, described as Sinew backed straight bow with cotton bowstring. Made of wood, sinew, and cotton.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62080, described as Incomplete. Thick, heavy, red stained wood shaft. Flanged whalebone foreshaft with large opening for point attached by sinew cordage.
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 2-62079, described as Red-stained wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, walrus ivory double barbed point attached to sealskin thong. Sinew lines, projecting bone or ivory finger rest.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62078, described as Walrus ivory foreshaft, seal intestine (?) float with ivory nozzle. Red stained wood shaft with cotton lines.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon dart, accession number 2-62074, described as Fletched, whalebone foreshaft, wood shaft, point missing. Sinew and cotton lines.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon dart, accession number 2-62073, described as Fletched, whalebone foreshaft, point missing. 2 rows of fletching. Sinew and cotton lines, red stained wood shaft. Nelson's "double feathered butt".
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon dart, accession number 2-62072, described as Fletched, whalebone foreshaft (broken off). Remnant of old glue, point missing. 2 ply sinew lines, wood shaft.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon dart, accession number 2-62069, described as Fletched, whalebone foreshaft, wood shaft. Bone point with 2 basal barbs and 1 side barb. Commercial cordage line.

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