22 ANIMAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



3. KNIVES— Continued. 



a. Straight knives : 



Mackerel rimmers or fatting knives. 



(Swords, including the various forms incidentally used in 



hunting, sabers, cutlasses, machetes, creases, &c.) 

 Stone and bone knives, used by Indians and Eskimos. ! 



Skin scrapers and parers, used in preparing leather. 



b. Clasp-knives: 



Sailors' clasp-knives. / 



Hunters' clasp-knives. / 



Clasp-dirks. 

 Jockey knives. 



4. AXES: 



a. Axes, proper : j 



Tomahawks. 



Hatchets. \ 



Whaleman's boat-hatchets. . ; 



Cleavers. 



Axes, used by fishermen and hunters. 



Head-axes for whalemen. 



b. Cutting-spades: ; 



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Whale- spades : i 



Cutting-spades. ^ 



Throat-spades, flat and round shank. 



Wide spades. i 



Half-round spades. 



Head-spades. 

 Blubber-mincing knives. 

 Chopping-knives. 



*** For thrusting. 



5. THRUSTING SPEARS AND PRODS : 



a. Fishing-lances. 



Whale-lances. 



Whaleman's boat-spades, thick and thin. 



Seal-lances. 



Fish-lances. 



b. Hunting-spears. 



c. Bayonets. 



d. Prodding-awls, used in piercing the base of the brain in killing i 



fish for the table. 



