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Wooden scoop — Continued. 



Length of bowl, 10 inches ; average width, 6£ inches ; handle, 

 3§ inches long. Port Townsend, Washington Territory. 

 13,104. James G. Swan. Used for bailing out canoes by 

 Haidah Indians, Queen Charlotte Islands. 



56. Shovels. 



Ash and coal shovel. 



Galvanized iron, projecting handle, with eye at end. Total length 

 (handle included), 13 inches ; width of blade 5 inches. Glouces- 

 ter, Mass., 1882. 54,329. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Middle- 

 town, Conn. Used for removing ashes from stove and for fill- 

 ing stove with coal, &c. 



57. Pumps and bung-buckets. 



Russell's fountain pump. 



Iron, with iron boxes, worked by hand with lever ; mounted on 

 wooden box to show it in operation. Dimensions of pump : 

 Height, 11 inches; including apparatus for working it, 14 

 inches; diameter, 16 inches; projecting lip or spout, 5 by 9 

 inches ; handle, 2£ feet long. Newburyport, Mass., 1883. 

 Albert Russell & Sons. This style of pump is now extensively 

 used on the modern-built fishing vessels of New England, and 

 is found much more powerful and easier to work than the 

 wooden pumps formerly carried. 



Hand water-pump. 



Hard wood, tubular, small cylinder- shaped nozel 5 inches from top. 

 Wooden box connected by wire rod to wooden handle at top. 

 Length, 3f feet; diameter, at lower end If inches, upper end 

 3 inches. Gloucester, Mass., 1883. 57,047. U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. Used for pumping fresh water from tanks, casks, or 

 barrels. 



Seine-boat pump. 



Wooden cylinder, with projecting, tubular-shaped woocleu spout, 

 inserted in round hole below top of pump, and standing at right 

 angles with the latter. Galvanized- iron rod and pump-box. 

 Length of pump, 4 feet; diameter, 6£ inches; spout, 3 feet 10 

 inches long; diameter, 4 inches. Gloucester, Mass., 1883. 

 57,046. U. S. Fish Commission. Used for pumping water out 

 of purse-seine boats. The pump is usually fixed in the after 

 part of the boat. 



