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oval in section. Barlxs, three on each margin. Line hole oblong. 

 The line is of rawhide, one end fastened through the line hole )\v a 

 triple splice. A))out midway the line is split and the two ends are 

 fastened as a martingale — one around the shaft near the foreshaft, the 

 other 18 inches from tlie butt end, ])oth b}^ a clove hitch. The assem- 

 bling line on this specimen is short. It is pressed into 

 the wood just below the juncture with the foreshaft and 

 passes forward, then through the perforations in the 

 foreshaft and backward, where it makes three clove 

 hitches and then is continued backward, where the upper 

 end of the martingale is attached, and is fastened off by 

 a half hitch, the end being pressed into the wood. This 

 specimen is from Kotzebue Sound, collected by W. H. 

 Dall. Length of shaft, 49i inches; foreshaft, 5 inches; 

 point 2f inches. 



A large toggle head of a harpoon without })lade (Cat. 

 No. 38775, U.S.N.M.), from Diomede Island, is shown 

 in fig. 63. It is of a typical form. The body is high and 

 narrow, elliptical in outline, but having flattened faces 

 here and there. The line hole is cut straight through, 

 and is a flat ellipse in outline, 1^ inches long and three- 

 eighths inch wide, with no attempt at line 

 grooves. There is one immense barb 

 formed by the back prolonged, ridged, and 

 cocked up. The shallow socket is in a 

 long cut or chamfer forming the butt end. • 

 Length, 8i inches. Collected by E. W. 



Fig. 63. 



TOGGLE HEAD. 



Diomede Island, 

 Collected by E. W. 



Nelson. Cat. No. 



38775, U.S.N. M. 



Nelson. To this same class of long, slen- 



der heads with large line hole belong the 

 following specimens, with polygonal cross section. 



Cat. No. 48589 (fig. 64), from Kotzebue Sound, col- 

 lected b}^ Nelson, is a little model in walrus ivory of a 

 precisely similar head, with perpendicular blade and 

 very long bevel at the butt end. 



A typical Alaskan walrus toggle head (Cat. No. 49167, 

 U.S.N.M.), from Diomede Island, is shown in fig. 65. 

 The body is of walrus iv^ory, conoid, with sloping faces 

 on the back. Blade of iron, large in proportion, square 

 at the base, set li inches into the slit, and held by a 

 bone pin. 



Line hole otdong, straight through, widened behind, 

 and flanked ))y two short grooves. Barl), one, angular; 

 socket for the end of the shaft half an inch deep. Butt end cut oflf 

 in a plane slighth^ warped at the socket. Length, 5 inches. Collected 

 bv E. W. Nelson. 



Fig. 04. 



MODEL OF, TOGGLE 

 HE.\D. 



Kotzebue Sound. 

 roUeoted by E. \V. 



Nelson. Cat. No. 



48589, U.S.N.M. 



