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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19346, described as Ivory foreshaft and point; point barbed on two sides, attached with sinew.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6573, described as Red-brown painted shaft, whalebone foreshaft, barbed point, fletched.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19342, described as Ivory foreshaft, point barbed on two sides. NOTE: in 1972 foreshaft only (bone , not ivory, with fine sinew cordage) found, rest of specimen not located.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19349, described as Ivory foreshaft weighted with lead plugs. Wood shaft. Point (barbed on two sides) missing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-14893, described as Foreshaft made of sperm whalebone from an earlier spear; barb of walrus ivory; wood shaft painted with duck blood and black rock. Point barbed on one side.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19350, described as Wood with ivory foreshaft. Separate ivory point barbed on two sides. Sinew and cord used to attach foreshaft and point.
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-15359, described as Half of a composite whale harpoon of bone
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 2-19348, described as Ivory foreshaft with red paint on base. Point barbed on two sides, wood shaft. Barb attached with sinew.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-19345, described as Ivory foreshaft and point; point barbed on two sides, attached with sinew.

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