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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



A flat toggle head (No. 45855, U.S.N.M.) with a gibbous section has 

 the back more compressed than the bell}'. The fr3nt end is rounded, 

 the blade slit not deep, and rivet hole large. The line hole is curved 

 upward and has deep line grooves. Barbs, two on the outer margins, 

 formed by a sUghtly incurved cut into the butt end. The butt is 

 whittled away so that the toggle head is just as long on the belly as on 

 the ))ack. Length. 3 inches. Gift of the Copenhagen Museum. 

 Example 63H51, gift of Governor Fenckner, is somewhat similar, but 



the back is longer and the 

 notch between the tips of 

 the barbs is not angular. 



Example No. 45670 in the 

 U. S. National Museum is 

 the point of a large har- 

 poon from Greenland. The 

 blade, of iron, was inserted 

 in a saw cut in the end of 

 the shank and riveted with 

 iron, now decayed b}^ rust. 

 The shank, of whale's rib, 

 is rectangular in the section 

 at the front and circular 

 in other parts. Between 

 the rectangular and circu- 

 lar portions are four barbs. 

 At the angles the butt end 

 is conical to fit into a socket. 

 In the end of the shaft, 3 

 inches above, two holes are 

 pierced for the insertion of 

 a thong forming a hinge 

 between the loose shaft and 

 the shaft. Total length, 15f 

 inches. Gift of the Copen- 

 and untinished specimen of 



Fig. 26. 



TOGGLE AND BARBED HARPOON HEAD. 



West Greenland, 

 of ( 'openhagen Museum. Cat. No. 45883. U.S.N.M. 



hagen Museum. No. 63939 is a broken 

 the same type. 



Example No. 45872 jn the U. S. National Museum is the loose shaft 

 and point of a ))arbed harpoon combined, from south Greenland. The 

 front end is furnished with two barbs on one side and the top is 

 pointed. The butt end is cylindrical to fit into the foreshaft, and 2 

 inches above it are three holes bored for the rawhide thong which 

 attaches this part to the shaft. The noticeable feature in this old 

 piece is the presence of the barbs on the loose shaft and the entire 

 absence of toggle attachments. Length, 14 inches. Gift of the 

 Copenhagen Museum. 



