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A harpoon is a long spear-like projectile used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other hunting activities to shoot, kill, and capture large fish or marine mammals such as seals, sea cows and whales. This photograph shows two views of a 19th-century Inuit harpoon, known as an unaaq in Inuktitut, from Labrador in present-day Canada.Photograph credit: Didier Descouens