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seal the Eskimos of Norton Sound employ a very light harpoon, which 

 is a model of delicacy and effectiveness. It is lanced from a spear 

 thrower. In the same and in adjoining regions the large whale toggle 

 is found of the same pattern, but clumsy looking, and it is used in the 

 hand as well as lanced from a spear thrower. In the neighborhood 

 of Point Barrow a seal is shot with a rifle from the edge of the ice and 

 then retrieved by hurling a toggle harpoon at it in order to get a hold. 



No. 1. Toggle harpoon of Shasta Indians. Toggle, a bone 3 inches long, pointed 

 at one end, socketed at the other, and attached in the middle to a cord 



of hemp covered with a coating of pitch. Califoi'nia 76,199 



No. 2. Toggle harpoons of the Hupas, in three parts ; points of bone or iron ; 

 double bone barbs ; rawhide leader ; held together by a wrapping of 

 twine covered with pitch ; socket for the shaft between the barbs ; line 



of hemp. California 126,525 



No. 3. Toggle harpoon heads fi-om North Pacific tribes, similar in structure to 

 No. 2, with the addition of arrowheads for points ; lines woolded with 



cotton string 34,397, 74,175 



No. 4. Similar in structure to No. 2, with the addition of a barbed harpoon head 

 for point ; line in one example woolded. From Nimpkish Indians, 



British Columbia 129,980 



No. 5. Toggle harpoon head for whale fishing. Body of whale's bone with line 

 hole across the middle ; blade of flaked chert inserted in a saw cut in 



front. Point Barrow, Alaska 89,749 



No. 6. Toggle harpoons from Norton Sound, Alaska. Body of bone ; barb single, 

 beveled upwards ; blades of slate and ivory ; sockets for loose shaft in 

 the butt end ; becket of rawhide for attachment to the great 



line 169,104. 7,422 



No. 7. Toggle harpoon from Alaska, with double barb and steel blade; becket 

 of seal hide ; leader, of sinew twine, attaches the blade to the becket ; 

 blade cover two pieces of wood lashed together with spruce root, 



16,125 



No. 8. Toggle harpoon {Tokung), from Cumberland Gulf. Body flat and line 



hole concealed underneath ; blade of iron riveted in ; barbs two, flat. 



The type also of western Asia 34,070 



No. 9. Toggle harpoon from Alaska. Body of walrus ivory, with two or three 

 barbs; blades of metal. In this example the loose shaft is shown fixed 



in its socket. Ornamented after Russian motives 37,945 



No. 10. Toggle harpoon head from Nunivak, Alaska, showing the method of 

 hinging the foreshaft and wooden cover for the head. Body of walrus 



ivory, with two bai+>s, decorated 176,222 



No. 11. Toggle harpoons from the Eskimos of Mackenzie River, similar to the 

 foregoing in general outline, but furnished with barbs on the iron 

 blades or on the body. Combination of barbed harpoon head with 



the toggle harpoon 3,975, 2,092, 7,422 



No. 12. Seal harpoon with toggle head and foreshaft. Line of seal hide; bone 



detacher 72,397 



No. 13. Toggle harpoon head of iron for swordfish, with hastate point and 

 lateral flukes or barbs; line hole across the middle; shaft works in 

 in socket in the butt 102,536 



