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Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-15383, described as Bone harpoon point with characteristic perforations
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-1725, described as Ivory tipped seal harpoon.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5829, described as Feathered seal harpoon. Small bone point (barbed on one side) attached to a leather thong splitting at its ends to be connected at two places on the wooden shaft (Y-shaped harpoon line). Socket made of a heavy bone lashed with a braided sinew thread to the shaft.
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-31455, described as Harpoon
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19324, described as Harpoon with ivory foreshaft, point barbed on two sides, feathered.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19332, described as Harpoon with ivory foreshaft, point barbed on both sides, feathered.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3049, described as Reddish brown painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft. Bone head with 3 unilateral barbs, plaited sinew line.
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.

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