United States of America. 199 



114. A full-sized whale boat, 28 feet long, with all the apparatus of 

 capture ; the names of the various parts of the boat, the boat fittings, and each article used in 

 the chase and capture of the whale are plainly labelled. Every article in the boat, as well as 

 the boat itself, have been in actual use. 



XXVIII. WHALING CKAFT, HARPOONS, GUNS, AND LANCES. 



115. A series of 47 hand-harpoons, arranged in groups, "but not in chrono- 

 logical order, including the forms employed by the early and modern whalemen, and several 

 types of the walrus-harpoon. 



116. A series of guns, including eight shoulder guns of different patterns, 

 both breech-loading and muzzle-loading ; several types of the darting gun ; swivel gun ; and 

 rocket gun ; also accessories, including cartridges, wads, &c. 



117. A series of 33 gun harpoons of various forms. Though these irons 

 have no commercial value at present, with the exception perhaps of those intended for the 

 swivel-gun, yet they have been used, and are interesting and" valuable as a whole, constituting 

 as they do the numerous links in the chain that connects the past with the present. 



118. Earliest types of the hand-lances, formerly exclusively used for killing 

 Whales, the past and present forms of the lances for killing Seal, Sea-elephant, and Walrus, the 

 old-fashioned, non-explosive gun-lance, and the bomb-lance, darting-bomb, and rocket-bomb of 

 the present. Also an example of the first bomb-lance, patented in the United States for killing 

 Whales. Two forms of the explosive harpoons, which may be thrust by hand, and one form 

 intended to be used in connection with an improved pivot gun. An explosive hand-lance, 

 several bomb-lances that have been cut from dead whales, some of which failed to explode, 

 others being exploded and represented by fragmentary pieces. 



XXIX. CUTTING GEAR. 



Up. A series of whalers' implements known comprehensively as cutting-gear 



and try-works gear, arranged on and about a pyramidal wooded frame-work, from the centre of 

 which the blubber-tackle is suspended. A cutting stage is rigged at the right; upon it is 

 placed a lay figure, life-size, representing an officer in the act of cutting the blubber from the 

 whale. Two long slabs of baleen cross each other near the top in the central front, and boat 

 waifs are placed at the right and left corners. Various long-handled implements, including the 

 cutting spades, head-spades, skimmers, and bailers, are arranged in frames at the rear. The 

 heavy chains and toggles used for fastening the whale to the vessel, and for hoisting in the 

 blubber, are placed above the front base. The superstructure consists of a main royal pole, 

 lookout bows, an American ensign, and a life cast of a petty officer standing upon the cross- 

 trees, with a marine glass at his eye, on the lookout for whales. 



XXX. ABORIGINAL WHALING AND SEALING APPARATUS. 



120. A series of whaling implements used by the Makah Indians of Cape 

 Flattery, Washington Territory, including the harpoon-staff, harpoon, and lanyards, the lance- 

 pole and lances, the sealskin buoys, and tow-ropes made of the fibres of spruce roots. 



121. Harpoons and lances employed in whaling and sealing by the Eskimos 

 of Alaska, and the Hudson Bay region. 



SECTION G. FISHERY PRODUCTS AND THEIR PREPARATION. 



XXXI. APPARATUS AND MATERIALS USED IN THE PREPARATION AND 

 CARE OF PRODUCTS. 



122. Fish cars and other floating cages for aquatic animals, including 

 model of fish-marketman's car for the preservation of living fish ; model of fish-car towed by 

 the smack for keeping the catch alive ; live-car, full size, for keeping fish alive ; model of 

 lobster-car for keeping live lobsters. 



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