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Start Over Culture or time period Eskimo Materials Spruce root Function 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Hearst Museum object titled Bird spear, accession number 2-6285, described as Three tapered points, inner edges barbed. Attached to wooden shaft with sinew. Tip of one point broken off.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Float board, accession number 2-5828, described as Reel and frame for fishing on a kayak, 1 rod broken, 2 bone seals attached to frame. Made of two poles at angle attached to a hoop made of bentwood; two small ivory seals at set on distal end of the holder; the parts are held together with leather thong and spruce root lines; the projecting pieces are inserted under a deck line.
Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-4348, described as Stone point, slate blade, red-stained wood handle. Ground slate blade inserted into wooden shaft and bound with spruce root.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6318, described as Harpoon; bone point, barbed on both sides, attached to a leather thong, tied to the shaft (81 cm from tip); bone finger rest, shaped like a killer whale dorsal fin, is lashed 49 cm down shaft; bone socket lashed with spruce root binding to shaft; no retaining line. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6316, described as Seal harpoon and icepick combined. Copper blade set on a toggling ivory head, with leather harpoon line; long curved ivory foreshaft set in socket attached to wooden shaft; long spur of ivory; retaining line of leather; binding of baleen & spruce root.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Marmot trap, accession number 2-4417, described as Cylindrical, 2 pieces wood fastened together with willow bark lashing. Hollow.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Marmot trap, accession number 2-4418, described as Cylindrical, 2 pieces wood fastened together with willow bark lashing. Hollow. Made of two half tubes (carved wood), secured together with spruce root strings; at one end are two holes through which a string with the bait was attached. Toward the entrance on the other side, on the inside is a groove with a hole in the top.

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