^2 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



SPEAES WITH DETACHABLE HEADS. 



Harpoon-spears. 



^564. Head of barbed fisb-dart, made of native copper. Eskimos. Sitka 



Alaska. Dr. T. T. Minor. ' ' 



•9083. Head of barbed fisb-dart, made of native copper. Alaska. Lieut F 



W. King, U. S. N. 



•20853. Head of barbed fisb-dart of native copper witb line of twisted sinew. 



Alaska. Smitbsonian Institution. 

 ■21413. Fisb-spear witb detacbablc barb. Hoocbuon Indians. Soutb Eel 



River, California. Stephen Powers. 

 39428. Double-pronged spears with detacbablc beads. McCloud River 

 Indians, Shasta Co., Cal. Livingston Stone. These spears are 

 used in the capture of the Salmo quinnat. The bandies are thirty 

 feet in length. The barbs are made from the splint bones of deer 

 See No. 13743, below. 

 1904G. Fish-spear with detachable barbs. Cooyuuu Pi-Ute Indians. Pyi-amid 



Lake, Nevada. Stephen Powers. - 

 13743. Points for salmon-spear made of the splint bones of the deer. McCloud 

 River Indians. Shasta Co., Cal. Livingston Stone. 

 G50. Harpoon-arrows with iron tips. Indians. Cape Flattery Wash " 

 Ter. Geo. Gibbs. 

 21308. Wooden barbs for lish-barpoon. Indians. Hoopah Valley, Cal. Ste- 

 phen Powers. 

 2249. Head offish-harpoon. Eskimos. Anderson River. • R. McFarlane. 

 11356. Harpoon-dart with bladder-float. Nashegay Indians. Alaska. Dr 



T. T. Minor. 

 113G2. Harpoon-dart with bladder-float. Nashegay Indians. Alaska. Dr 

 T. T. Minor. 



7998. Harpoon-dart with bladder-float. Nashegay Indians. Alaska Dr 

 T. T. Minor. 



8. Tongs, &g. 

 TOisrGS (with two handles). 

 Oyster-tongs. 



26110, Oyster-tongs. S. Salisbury, Providence, R. I. 



26109. Oyster-tongs. " " 



25205. Oyster-tongs. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Middletown, Conn. 



29111. Oyster-nippers. S. Salisbury, Providence, R. I. 



9. Tangles. 



The tangles are employed by naturalists for the purpose of gathering small 

 spiny animals, such as sea-urchins and star-fishes, from the bottom'at con- 

 siderable depths. They adhere to the fibers of the spun-yarn in great num- 

 bers. It has been thought that this instrument might advantageously be 

 employed in freeing oj^ster-bods from their worst enemies, the star-fish.' 



