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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6314, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong tied to shaft 21 cm from tip of socket; cylindrical ivory socket mortised for the distal end of shaft, wound with braided sinew (mixed with white quill); end of winding is lashed along the shaft. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5835, described as Feathered harpoon; cf. 2-5829 except point bilaterally barbed; ivory socket; one of three feathers lost. Used for summer sea hunting.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6402, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied at 25 & 89 cm from tip of socket; ivory socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with braided sinew thread which extends to the next attachment of the dart line; two feathers attached with sinew at proximal end; circular wooden shaft partially painted red and black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5834, described as Dart. Small bone point, bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong Y shaped harpoon line; ivory socket lashed with braided sinew to shaft; feathers at proximal end of shaft secured with braided sinew. Used for summer sea hunting. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
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 2-6674, described as Red-painted wood shaft, bone foreshaft, detachable head of native copper with 3 unilateral barbs; fletched; plaited sinew line.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6400, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed attached to a braided sinew string tied to shaft 76 cm from tip of socket; cylindrical bone socket mortised to receive the distal end of shaft; winding of twisted sinew; continuing as a retaining line wrapped on shaft; twisted sinew mortised to receive distal end of shaft; three radial feathers at proximal end tied with very thin twisted sinew; cylindrical blade. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6401, described as Feathered; bone point bilaterally barbed, attached to Y-shaped leather thong tied to the shaft at 25 & 88 cm from tip of socket; bone socket set into distal end of shaft, wound with sinew thread which extends to the next attachment of the dart line; on proximal end, two black feathers are partially lost, attached to shaft, circular wooden shaft painted red and black. Yup'ik name: nagiiquyaq.

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