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Boat-hook — Continued. 



the other with a hook of bone, each lashed to staff with thongs 

 of hide. Carried in kyak or native boat by Alaskan Indians 

 to ward oft* floating ice. Length, 5 feet. Alaska, 1882. 72,419. 

 Collected by Chas. L. McKay. 



Extractor. 



Cedar staff, 1 J inches in diameter, notched at one end, and shod at 

 the other with a boat-shaped piece of carved bone lashed with 

 strips of hide. Sledge Island. Used in kyak generally as a 

 boat-hook, and to extract articles stowed forward and abaft 

 the central opening, or cockpit, in which occupant sits. Length, 

 3 feet 9 inches. Alaska, 1878. 45,408. Collected by E. W. 

 Nelson. 



47. Leaders and lizards. 



buntline leaders. 



Eope buntline hole and rope grommet, inserted and loose. Middle- 

 town, Conn. 25,123. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co. 



Buntline Leader. 



Made of galvanized iron. One sample loose and one inserted in 

 canvas. Middletown, Conn. 54,733. Wilcox, Crittenden & 

 Co. 



Buntline Leader. (Wilcox's patent, improved.) 



One sample loose and one inserted. A galvanized iron grommet- 

 ring is first worked in, then the whole covered with the brass 

 grommet. This is said to be the strongest and best buntline 

 leader now used. Middletown, Conn. 54,734. Wilcox, Crit- 

 tenden & Co. 



Lizards or buntline bull's-eyes. 



Made of lignum- vitse. Series of fifteen sizes. Used to secure 

 standing rigging to the side of the vessel, and sometimes used 

 as fair-leaders. Middletown, Conn. 25,151. Wilcox, Critten- 

 den & Co. 



Fair-leaders and boom foot-stops. 



Series of three sizes ; used by the smack fishermen of Newport, 

 E. I. 25,604. Gift of J. M. K. Southwick. 



Fair-leader. 



Used on the booms of Gloucester vessels. Gloucester, Mass. 

 29,450. Samuel Elwell, jr. 



