76 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



8tralg'ht knives. 



Stone and bone knives used by Indians and Eskimos. 



1G115. Bono knifo. Magemut Eskimos, Nmiivak Islands, Alaska. AV. H. 



Dall. 



2178. Bono knife. Eskimos. 



1328. Bono knife. Eskimos. 



Harpoon-knives. 



16348. Harpoon-knife, -witli slieatli. Magemut Eskimos, Nunivak Islands, 



[Alaska. W. H. Dall. 

 16110. Harpoon-knifo, with sheath. " " 



16105. Harpoon-knife, with sheath. " " 



1G103. Harpoon-knife, with sheath. " " 



19382. Harpoon-knife, with slate blade. " " 



Honey-knives. 



The thin blade bent at an angle to the handle. 

 26145. Honey-knife. John Russell Cutlery Co., Turner's Falls, Mass. 



Skin scrapers and parers, nsed in preparing leather. 



26144. Tanner's knife. 12-inch blade. John Russell Cutlery Co., Turner's 



[Falls, Mass. 

 26195. Tanner's knife. 14-inch blade. " 



4. Axes. 

 Axes, proper. 



Head-axes for wlialemen. 



Used in cutting off head of whale. 

 25913. Head-axe. E. B. & F. Macy, New Bedford, Mass. 



Wlialemen's boat-liatcliets. 



Used for cutting harpoou-line at the bow, when it becomes tangled in "pay- 

 ing out." 



24880. Boat-hatchet. (Model.) Capt. L. Howland, New Bedford, Mass. 

 This implement in its place in the boat is shown in model of 

 whale-boat. 

 26839. A boat-hatchet may be seen in its proper place in the bow of the 

 large whale-boat. 



€ uttm^-i^pades. 



Wliale-spades. 

 Cutting-spades. 



Used in peeling the blubber from the carcass of the dead whale ; for illustra- 

 tion see model of " whale-ship cutting in the blubber." 



25S79. Cutting-spade. E. B. & F. Macy, New Bedford, Mass. 

 25008. Cutting-spade. J. H. Thomson, Now Bedford, Mass. 



