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Boat-hooks. 



Made of galvanized malleable iron. Sharp points. Sizes and 1, 

 mounted on poles. Middletown, Conn. 25,199. Wilcox, Crit- 

 tenden & Co. 



Boat-hooks. 



Made of galvanized iron. Navy pattern; ballpoints; single hook; 

 mounted on wooden pole. Middletown, Conn. 25,198. Wil- 

 cox, Crittenden & Co. 



boat-hooks— aboriginal. 

 Boat-hook. 



Staff of cedar, 1 inch in diameter, one end ornamented with notches, 

 the other shod with an ivory hook carved in shape of a bird's 

 beak, and lashed to staff with thongs of hide. Used in kyak 

 for extracting articles from the forward and after ends of 

 boat, and for the various purposes of ordinary boat-hook. 

 Length, 2 feet 7 inches ; hook, 1£ inches long. Alaska, 1878. 

 36,020. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Boat-hook. 



Wooden staff, 1J inches in diameter, oval in cross-section, shod at 

 one end with a piece of pointed bone and at the other with a 

 hook of bone, each lashed to staff with thongs of hide. Used 

 in kyak or native boat, by Alaskan Indians, to ward off floating 

 ice, &c. Length, 4 feet; length of bone, 5 inches. Alaska, 

 1878. 36,022. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Boat-hook. 



Staff of cedar, f inch in diameter, 3 feet 10 inches long, shod on 

 upper end with bone hook lashed with thongs of hide. Used 

 in native boat or kyak for extracting articles from forward 

 and after ends of boat and for various purposes of ordinary 

 boat-hook. Length, 3 feet 10 inches. Alaska, 1878. 36,023. 

 Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Boat-hook. 



Wooden staff, 1^ inches in diameter, armed at upper end with 

 elaborately carved ivory tusk, triangular in cross-section, the 

 upper end butting against the staff, and lashed in plane of stick 

 with strips of hide. Part of outfit of a bidarka or native 

 Alaskan boat from Groloona Bay. Alaska, 1880. 43,347. Col- 

 lected by E. W. Nelson. 



Boat-hook. 



Staff of wood, oval in cross-section, If inches in diameter, shod at 

 one end with a piece of pointed bone 7 inches long and at 



