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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



The blade in this example i.s niissiiii^. and was inserted in a saw cut 



at the rounded end of the body and held in place by a rivet. 



The shaft socket is a conical hole centered between the back and the 



front surfaces and flanked b}^ barbs 

 whose points are formed hy the meeting 

 of the })ack, the belly, and the socket or 

 excavation in the rear for the foreshaft. 

 The line hole is formed hj the meet- 

 ing of tAVo holes bored in from the under 

 side and not quite through to the top. 

 Line grooves project backward from 

 the line hole so as to render all smooth 

 to prevent the thong from chafing. 

 Length, 21 inches. 



A combined barbed and toggle head 

 (Cat. No. 45886, U.S.N.M.) f rom Avest 

 Greenland is shown in fig. 29, and is a 

 gift of the Copenhagen Museum. The 

 l)ody is of bone, the back being formed 

 of the hard or outside portion. The 

 kerf for the blade 

 is wide, and the 

 latter, missing in 

 this specimen, was 

 fastened in with a 

 rivet. On either 

 side of the blade 



are two marginal barbs, cut out squarely as with 



a saw; from the tang of these barbs the bod}- 



widens out to the tip end of the spur or flukes. 



The line hole is formed by two distinct conical 



bores, which meet at their inner extremities, 



forming at the same time a continuous cavit}^ 



and line grooves. The butt is bifurcated, and 



the cavit}' for the end of the foreshaft seems to 



have been bored out after the barbs were formed. 



This fine old piece is worth}' of note in that both 



types of harpoon head, the barbed and the tog- 

 gle, are pi-eserved. The specimen represents 



also what Murdoch considers to be the original 



form, since the barbs, the blade, and the line 



hole are in the same plane, while in the better and more improved 



varieties the blade is set in at right angles to the line hole. 



A barbed harpoon head of bone (Cat. No. 45887, U.S.N.M.), all in 



one piece, from northwestern Greenland, is shown in fig. 30. It is 



FiR. JS. 



Ol.n TOGGI-E HEAD. 



Nortli Greciilanfi. 



CollfctfU by Emil Bessels. Cat. No. ^.WS.S, 



U.S.N.M. 



Fig. 29. 



OI.I) K.\RBED .\.N1> TOGGLE 

 HEAD. 



West Greenland. 



Gift of Copenhagen Museum. 



Cat. No. 45886, l .S.N.M. 



