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Fig. 44. 



OLD TOGGLE HEAD. 



West Greenland. 



Gift of Governor Fenekner. 

 63948, U.S.N.M. 



run ill perpendicular to the two lower sides or faces, having slight line 



grooves. Barbs two, one on the right mar- 

 gin, one on the left, their tips ^ying in the 

 bisecting plane of the toggle heail. Socket 

 extending into the line hole. Butt end whit- 

 tled away equally above and below. Length, 

 2f inches. Gift of Governor Fenekner. Cat. 

 No. 63950 is of the same type, 2i inches long. 

 A grave relic (Cat. No. 63950, U.S.N.M.) 

 representing a small toggle head of a harpoon 

 from Greenland, the gift of Governor Fenek- 

 ner, is shown in fig. 45. 



The body, rhomboidal in section, the back 

 and front being about 

 alike, is made of a seg- 

 ment from the co- 

 lumnar portion of a 

 bone. The fact that 

 both sides are equally 

 hard necessitates the 

 forming of the shaft 

 socket in the hollow 

 part of the bone. The 

 barbs are cut out of the two angles or wings 

 on the two sides of the liody. The line hole 

 is interesting, being ef- 

 fected by cutting two 

 holes perpendicularly 

 into the two faces of 

 the belly, meeting in 

 the hollow part of the «*» 

 lione. Each of these is 



flanked with a shallow gutter in which lies the 

 line. The forming of a toggle head out of the 

 middle column of a bone instead of a piece of 

 ivory, antler, or solid bone is rare. Length, 2 

 inches. 



An old toggle head (Cat. No. 63951, U.S.N.M.) 

 from west Greenland is shown in fig. 46. The 

 point has been broken oft', but enough is left 

 to show a small portion of the blade slit. It 

 belongs to the type of specimen 45855, and 

 the socket in the base for the foreshaft is 

 flanked by two equal barbs. A conmion type in harpoon heads from 

 this area. The line hole on the end sidv is formed by the meeting of 



Fig. 45. 



SMALL TOGGLE HEAD. 



West Greenland, 

 of Governor Fenekner. Cat. 

 No. 63950, U.S.N.M. 



Fig. 46. 

 OLD TOGGLE HEAD. 



West Greenland. 



Gift of Governor Fenekner. 

 No. 639.il. U.S.N.M. 



