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Hearst Museum object titled Atlatl, accession number 2-14932, described as Inlaid knob of walrus ivory; green and brown paint.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bola, accession number 2-38936, described as Bola stone. Ovoid walrus ivory with perforation at one end and partial groove on one side. Made from carved walrus ivory.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bola, accession number 2-6704, described as Oval walrus ivory ball (unfinished bola stone).
Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-18874, described as Of walrus penis bone.
Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-19008, described as Walrus penis bone.
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 2-1495, described as Foreshaft, socketed, walrus ivory.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-16688a-d, described as Large harpoon head with wooden cap for slate point and wooden holder for toggle and line (shaft and harpoon line for float missing). (a) harpoon toggle head, "fossil" ivory, slate point, rawhide leader. (b) red stained wood sheath. (c) detached toggle shaft, antler, loop of rawhide. (d) oblong red painted wood object hollowed out at one end, may be what is refered to as "wooden holder for toggle and line".
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-62079, described as Red-stained wood shaft, whalebone foreshaft, walrus ivory double barbed point attached to sealskin thong. Sinew lines, projecting bone or ivory finger rest.
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6286, described as Repeating" harpoon. At distal end is split walrus tusk icepick with land otter like incised image with blue bead eyes. Collared socketpiece. Detachable point is m issing.

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