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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 L-17966, described as Worked bone piece" crossed out and "Pseudo harpoon" added above it (dittoed down from L-17963).
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 L-19921, no description available.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6296, described as Feathered; bone point unilaterally barbed, attached to dart line of leather, Y-shaped, tied to shaft 26 & 87 cm from socket tip; socket of bone set into distal end of shaft; short retaining line from socket to the first attachment of dart line; at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq. Used to hunt small sea mammals in the summer.
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 1-18426, described as Bone harpoon fragment

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