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Start Over Object name Harpoon Object class Basketry (object genre) Collection place Northwestern United States
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-13617, described as Fletched, 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 2-3051, 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 2-69171, described as Wood shaft with bone socketpiece. Bone barbed point attached with seal thong. Some plaited sinew wrapping. Fletched, bladder missing. Found mis-numbered in 1988 (had #2-6365 on it which belongs to a Kodiak harpoon arrow); ivory socket mortised to take the shaft's distal end; winding of braided sinew; retaining line lashed on shaft down to the lashing of the three. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-13614, described as Fletched, 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 2-19367, described as Harpoon of wood (point and foreshaft missing). Plaited sinew lashed to shaft. Sinew passes through hole in ivory plug of sealskin bladder float to connect it to shaft.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-36642, described as Red stained wood shaft, bone foreshaft, feathers in poor condition. Point missing. Made with painted wood and whalebone, and plaited sinew line.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-3043, described as Harpoon with wood shaft, red painted. Ivory foreshaft, barbed ivory point and sinew plaited line, feathers are attached near end of shaft.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6364, described as Decorated with feathers. Red painted wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, bone head with 3 unilateral barbs. Plaited sinew line. Feathers at proximal end.
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 2-19365, described as Harpoon of wood with triangular ivory point which has a barb on one side. Foreshaft missing, plaited sinew cord lashed to head. The cord passes through point then down shaft and through ivory plug of sealskin bladder float and lashes to spear.

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