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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 2-6662, described as Bone point. Unilaterally serrated, sharply pointed bone point inserted into wooden shaft; head inserted into wood shaft; feathers at proximal end. Native name: pitegcaun, qerruq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6588, described as Bird arrow, quadra-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end. Native names: pitegcaun, qerrutviit, yaqulegcuun.
Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6583, described as Bird arrow. Bi-lobed bone point, one point partially lost, inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers, now lost, at proximal end. Native names: pitegcaun, qerrutviit, yaqulegcuun.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6614, described as Small, single serrated bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew; feathers at proximal end. Used for summer fishing. Native names: pitegcaun, neqsuun.
Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6581, described as Bird arrow. Round, single-pointed bone tip inserted into wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers proximal end. Native names: pitegcaun, qerrutviit, yaqulegcuun.
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 2-6612, described as Small, quadra-lobed bone point inserted into wooden shaft, lashed with sinew; fletching at proximal notched end mostly lost. Native names: pitegcaun, qerrutviit, yaqulegcuun.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-4714, described as Broad, sharp pointed bone head; wooden shaft, notched proximal end; two tangential feathers; sinew binding . Used for land hunting. Native names: pitegcaun, tuquctiissuun.
Hearst Museum object titled Arrow, accession number 2-6582, described as Bird arrow. Quadra-lobed antler head point mortised to receive wooden shaft, secured with sinew; feathers at proximal end.

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