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shaft (qatirn) is a short head of bone mortised upon the end of the shaft, 

 truncated arrow shaped, in longitudinal cross section. On the narrow 

 side of the shaft, about one-third of the distance from the foreshaft, is 

 a hand rest (tikagung) made oi^ a quadrangular bit of bone. This is 

 perforated from side to side, laid against the shaft and lashed with a 



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Fig. 61. 



OLD TOGGLE HEAD WITH STONE BLADE. 



Cumberland Sound. 

 Collected by Geo. Y. Nickerson. Cat. No. 19521, U.S.N.M. 



strip of baleen. At right angles to this on the broad side of the shaft 

 is a peg protruding, resembling the peg for the line, but it is evidently 

 an added part, as it has no function. 



The loose shaft of ivory has a blunt pivot on the inner end which 

 fits into a socket in the foreshaft to form the ball-and-socket joint 

 (Igaming). The head is irregular, hexagonal in cross section and in a. saw 

 cut in the front end a leaf -shaped blade of iron is inserted and riveted. 

 The loose shaft and the foreshaft are hinged together, as in other speci- 



