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Harpoon-head. 



Bone, tipped with iron. Used in beluga fishing with the accompa- 

 nying harpoon-shafts (72392-93). Length, 9^ inches. Alaska. 

 72394, C. L. McKay. 

 Bone harpoon-head. 



Length, 7 J inches. Alaska. 72395. 0. L. McKay. 



Eskimo Lances — Seal and Walrus. 

 Seal-lance. 



Pole, wood ; lance-head, flint, lashed to pole and served with seal 

 sinew ; grip, ivory. Length, 10 feet 2 inches. Norton Sound. 

 33889. E. W. Nelson. 

 Seal-lance. 



Pole, wood, served at tip with strips of baleen ; shank, ivory, 

 seized with thong of seal-skin; lance-head, iron, riveted to 

 shank. Length, 12 feet 2 inches. Poonook, Alaska. 15954. 

 H. W. Elliott. Used by natives for the capture of seal and 

 walrus. 

 Eskimo lance. 



Pole, wood, butt-piece seized to pole with seal sinew; grip, ivory; 

 lance-blade, section of walrus tusk, twenty inches long, seized 

 to pole and served with seal sinew. Length, 8 feet 3 inches. 

 Alaska. 36062. E. W. Nelson. Used by natives to kill both 

 seal and walrus. 

 Eskimo lance. 



Handle, wood, one and one-half inches in diameter; butt-piece, ivory, 

 wedge-shaped, inserted in scarf in the butt of pole, and lashed 

 and served with the sinew of the seal ; ivory peg near tip of 

 handle used as a finger-grip when manipulating the instru- 

 ment; lance-blade, longitudinal section of walrus tusk, lashed 

 to pole with seal-thong. Total length, 8 feet. Alaska. 36063. 

 E. W. Nelson. Used by natives in the capture of seal and 

 walrus. 

 Eskimo lance. 



Pole, wood, butt-piece, ivory, wedge shaped, inserted in scarf at 

 butt of pole and served with seal sinew; grip, ivory; lance, 

 walrus ivory, 18f inches long, lashed to pole and served with 

 seal sinew. Length, 7 feet 6 inches. 43379. E. W. Nelson. 

 Used by natives to kill both seal and walrus. 

 Eskimo seal-lance. 



Pole, wood; butt, ivory with wedge-shaped scarf for lance or spear; 

 lance lashed to butt with seal-skin thong; finger-grip, ivory; 

 tip of pole served with black and horn-colored baleen strips; 

 head-piece and shank, walrus ivory ; harpoon wanting. Length, 

 9 feet. Sledge Island, Alaska. 45416. E. W. Nelson. Har- 

 poon and lance or spear combined. 



