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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4449, described as Wood shuttle-shaped rod, sinew and birdquill line. 4 lures, each with single hook.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4457, described as Large whalebone sinker and compound ivory hook. Bone remnant of guide, shuttle shaped rod (wood) with baleen line. Compound ivory hook has 4 iron points.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4466, described as Small ornamented hook and stone sinker. Lure is "fossil" walrus ivory and antler-like material fitted together. 2 blue beads attached by gut leather to mottled black and white sinker.
Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4450, described as Shuttle shaped wood rod, sinew line, ivory lure with metal hook. Birdquill leader.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4445, described as Red-stained shuttle-shaped wood rod, birdquill line, fish shaped ivory (?) lure with metal hook.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fishing tackle, accession number 2-4455, described as Shuttle shaped wood rod, plaited sinew line, ivory lure with curved iron hook.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-4349, described as Stone point.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-4352, described as Iron point, wood handle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-4365, described as Spear foreshaft, iron point, wood shaft
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6316, described as Seal harpoon and icepick combined. Copper blade set on a toggling ivory head, with leather harpoon line; long curved ivory foreshaft set in socket attached to wooden shaft; long spur of ivory; retaining line of leather; binding of baleen & spruce root.

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