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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 19(X). 



Fig. 57. 



TOGGLE HEAD, TAKEN FRuM 



DEAD WHALE. 



Cumberland Sound. 

 Collected by Ludwigr Kumlein, 

 after Franz Boas. C:at. No. 34069. 

 U.S.N.M. 



end which tits into the horizontal bore and form.s a >)utton or stop. 

 These two thongs unite about a foot below the head to form one con- 

 tinuous line. Length of head, 3f inches. 



A broad, flat harpoon head (Cat. No. 34069, 

 U.S.N.M.) of walrus ivory (tokang), taken from 

 a large Balmia myi^ticetus caught in Cumberland 

 Sound in 1S78. is shown in fig. 57. This specimen 

 was collected by Ludwig Kumlein. The body is 

 Ungulate in form, with a sharper curve below. 

 The iron blade, ))roken off at the point, is deep, 

 set into a saw cut, and riveted with iron. Near 

 the left-hand corner is bored a blade hole for a 

 securing line. The 

 line hole is large, 

 curved upward, and 

 the grooves are deep 

 for the thick rawhide 

 line, but they do not 

 perforate the head 

 and they are not 

 seen on the back of 

 the toggle head. The 

 butt end is gouged 

 out in a spoon-shaped 

 cavity and is bifur- 

 cated to form two 

 barbs, and these are split at their hinder 

 extremity. The tips of the barbs have 

 ornamental notches. The socket below the 

 plane of the barbs is wide and shallow. 

 Mr. Kumlein believes that this head was 

 thrust into the whale while it was a year- 

 ling, as the Eskimo do not attack a large 

 one with their own weapons. Length, 4 

 inches.^ 



A loose head of a seal lance (Cat. No. 34008, 

 U.S.N.M.) is shown in fig. 58. Body is of 

 ivory, blade pentagonal in shape, and fast- 

 ened in with a rivet. The bod}- is conoid in 

 form, with a square base. The socket for 

 the end of the foreshaft is conical, and 

 alongside of this at the margin two holes are bored, opposite each other, 

 perpendicular for a notch, at which point the}^ are met b}' two other 



Fig. 58. 



LOOSE HEAD OF LANXE. 



Cumberland Sound. 



Collected by Ludwig: Kumlein. Cat. No. 



34068. U.S.N.M. 



^ Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 490, fig. 422. 



