fisheries of the united states. [h^] 



Float-Lines and Floats. 



Harpoon with bladder-float. 



Pole, wood, painted black, striped with dull red ; tip served with 

 seal-sinew and recessed for harpoou-head. Harpoon, bone, 

 two barbed notches, attachexl to line with seal thong. Line 

 probably seal sinew, stopped to pole; float bladder of seal, 

 old, lashed to pole with seal sinew; ivory plug, ornamented, 

 inserted in neck of bladder to be used when the bladder is 

 inflated ; finger-rest, horn. Length, 14 feet. Kodiak, Alaska. 

 11362. Vincent Colyer. 



HARPOON-HEAD and FLOAT-LINE. 



Detachable harpoon-head, bone, tipped with slate. Line for bend- 

 ing on buoy, raw-hide. Length of head, 4| inches. Ooglaamie, 

 1882. 56562. Lieutenant P. H. Eay, U. S. A. 



HARPOON-HEAD and FLOAT -LINE. 



Head, walrus-ivory, iron tip riveted with native copper. Line, 

 walrus hide; bight caught in rigid eye of harpoon and seized 

 with strips of baleen. Length of head, 4| inches; length of 

 line, 107 feet. Point Chaplin, Siberia. 49151. E. W. Nelson. 



Seal-skin buoy. 



Stuffed. Ornamented with ivory pendants and feathers. Flippers 

 attached. North Greenland. 19515. G. T. Nickersou. 

 Float-line, 



Line made of walrus hide. Used in capture of walrus and whales, 

 for attaching buoys. Sledge Island, Alaska, 1880. 45403. 

 E. W. Nelson. 

 Float-line. 



A line made of seal-skin, used by the natives when capturing the 

 beluga, for bending on buoys. Cape Darby, Alaska. 48106. 

 E. W. Nelson. 



Two seal-skin buoys. 



Skin of a small seal turned inside out. The apertures of head and 

 feet are tied up or hermetically fastened by means of small bone 

 studs, with the exception of one of the fore-legs, which is used 

 for inflation, the hole being stopped by a wooden plug. A 

 grommet, through which the buoy-line is rove, is seized to 

 the neck. 24 by 15 inches. 72399, 26 by 16 inches. 72400. 

 Alaska. C, L. McKay. 



SEAL DECOYS. 



Three-clawed seal-scratoher. 



Handle and prongs wood, tipped with the claws of a seal ; claws 

 seized tightly with seal sinew, and lashed to an ivory peg, 



