A.— APPARATUS OF DIRECT APPLICATION. 



I.— HAHD IMPLEMENTS. 



1. Unarmed clubs. 



clubs used for killing- seals and sea-elephants. 



Sealer's club. 



A rough hickory stave, with knobbed handle and rope wrist-becket„ 

 Used by antarctic sealers and sea-elephant hunters. Length, 

 3 feet 3 inches. New Bedford, Mass., 1882. 54,533. Gift of 

 Loum Snow & Son. Upon this club may be seen traces of 

 blood from seals which its blows have killed. 



Sealer's club. 



A rough hickory stave. Used by the seal and sea-elephant hunters 

 of Connecticut in the antarctic seal-grounds. Length, 4 feet. 

 New London, Conn., 1880. 54,534. Gift of Lawrence & Co. 



clubs used for killing salmon. 

 Salmon club. 



Made of cedar ; end rudely carved in form of head of some animal.. 

 Length, 15 inches. Indians of Columbia Eiver, 1860. 651. 

 Collected by George Gibbs. 



clubs used for killing halibut and other large fish before; 



taking them into the boat. 

 Fish club. 



Used for killing fish. Indian name " Tiuethl." Length, 14£ inches. 

 Makah Indians, Neah Bay. 72,660. James G. Swan. Every 

 fisherman carries a club, and on hauling a fish to the surface 

 invariably knocks it on the head to prevent it from jumping 

 about in the canoe. 



Fish club. 



Large end, natural formation of the root. Ornamentation on the 

 end of handle was made by entwining the small limbs of a 

 growing fir sapling into the form of a "Turk's head." In three 

 or four years the sapling was cut, peeled, and finished. Length, 

 18 inches. Makah Indians, Neah Bay, W. T., 1883. 72,681. 

 James G. Swan. Used by native fishermen to stun the fish 

 by striking it on the head before tbe hook is removed from the 

 mouth. Such clubs are usually nothing more than a billet of 

 wood roughly fashioned, though sometimes rudely carved. 



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