ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 75' 



8trai§^ht knives. 



Slivermg-knives, used by fishermen. 



29407. Slivering-kuife. (Pattern first used by Cape Ann fishermeu.) Geo. 

 B. Foster, Beverly, Mass. 



29399. Sliveriug-kuife. (Cape Aim pattern.) Alex. McCurdy. 



29405. Slivering-knife. (Nantucket pattern.) Samuel Ehvell, jr., Glouces- 

 ter, Mass. 



25764. Slivering-knife. Samuel Ehvell, jr., Gloucester, Mass. 



32666. Sliveriug-blade. Gloucester, Mass. U. S. Fish Commission. 



riitcMng-knives. 



Used in slicing halibut into steaks or "flitches" in preparation for salting 

 and smoking. 



82726. Shore flitching-knife. Gloucester, Mass. U. S. Fish Commission. 

 32690. Bank flitching-knife. Adoli)h Voss, Gloucester, Mass. 

 29410. Flitching-knife. Gloucester, Mass. A. E. Crittenden. 



Clam and oyster knives. 



26209. Clam-knife. John Russell Cutlery Co., Turner's Falls, Mass. 



. Oyster-knife (model). See model of Chesapeake oyster-canoe (No. 



25003). 



Net-makers' knives. 



These knives are -nithout handles, and the heel of the short (2 inches long) 

 round-pointed blade is curled so as to fit the finger like a ring. 



29439. Net-mending knives (right-hand). Alex. McCurdy, Gloucester, Mass, 



29440. Net-mendiug knives (left-hand). Alex. McCurdy, Gloucester, Mass. 



Mackerel-rimmers' fatting-knives or ploughs. 



Used in creasing the sides of lean mackerel (Nos. 2 and 3) to cause them to 

 resemble fat (No. 1) mackerel. 



25768. Mackerel-plough. Edwin B\atchford. 



25769. Mackerel-j)lough. S. Elwell, jr., Gloucester, Mass. 



25770. Mackerel-plough, S. Elwell, jr., Gloucester, Mass. 



25771. Mackerel-plough. S. Elwell, jr., Gloucester, Mass. 



25773. Mackerel-plough. Edward Davis. 



25774. Mackerel-plough, Edward Davis. 



25775. Mackerel-plough. (Used in 1860.) Mrs. Hannah M. Burt. 

 25720. Mackerel-plough. Central Wharf Co., Provincetown, Mass, 



Splitting-knives. 



Used in cleaning fish before salting. 



32673. Mackerel-splitting knife. Gloucester, Mass. U. S. Fish Commission. 



22667. Cod-splitting knife (curved). " '•' 



22668, Cod-splitting knife (straight). " " 



Stone and bone kniv^es used by Indians and Eskimos. 



7224, Bone knife, Anderson River Eskimos, Fort Anderson, H, B, T. E. 

 McFarlane. 



