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Start Over Object class Harpoons Collection place Northwestern United States Collector Margaret Lantis
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 2-16708, described as Ivory foreshaft of seal harpoon; 12 inches long.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-16687, described as Small. Copper paint, antler (?) harpoon head, ivory foreshaft, walrus-gut float, ivory mouthpiece. Painted with ochre and Vivianite. Damaged on "Man the Inventor" exhibit Loan S65-65 #72 Heard Museum.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-14931, described as Foreshaft and point of whalebone; cord wrapping of sealion gut; wood shaft; point attached with cotton cordage woven with white, blue and red yarn.
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".
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon fragment, accession number 2-14908, described as Bone object tapered at one end.
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon fragment, accession number 2-14907, described as Bone object with encircling groove.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon point, accession number 2-16692.1, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon point, accession number 2-14912, described as Made of bronze. With cross (owner's mark) on base.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon point, accession number 2-16716, described as Ivory. Barbed.

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