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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 2-5831, 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 2-6398, described as Feathered; ivory point bilaterally barbed, attached to a leather thong which is tied to the shaft (52 cm from tip of socket); ivory socket at distal end of shaft, wound with sinew thread & retaining line which reaches the binding of the three black feathers, one torn, at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6299, described as Feathered; bone foreshaft attached to wooden shaft; ivory tip attached with thong; feathered at proximal end. Native name: nagiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-5827, described as Seal harpoon, feathered. Antler point; symmetrically barbed, attached to leather thong, tied to shaft at socket binding; antler finger rest, in form of killer whale fin; bone socket set on top of shaft. Native name: naqiiquyaq.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6406, described as Feathered.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon, accession number 2-6312, described as Harpoon; antler point, barbed on both sides; attached to a leather thong rolled around and tied to the shaft (106 cm from socket tip); antler finger rest shaped like a killer whale fin, lashed 64 cm down shaft; socket of heavy cylindrical baculum bone; all bone parts bound to shaft with sinew; proximal end tapered to point. Native name: nagiiquyaq.

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