842 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [18] 



CHEEKING KNIVES. 



Cod cheeking knife. 



Steel blade, single edge, curved. Pine handle. Length : blade, 4^ 

 inches ; handle, 4£ inches. Gloucester, Mass., 1877. 29,438. 

 Gift of Alex. McOurdy, maker. For cutting cheeks from cod 

 heads. Cheeks are salted and dried for food. 



whalemen's knives. 



(See list of apparatus employed in the whale fishery.) 



SKINNING KNIVES. 



Seal leaning knife. 



Steel blade, long, curved. Hard-wood handle. Length : blade, 12 

 inches ; handle, 5£ inches, New London, Conn., 1882. 57,691. 

 Gift of Lawrence & Co. Used by the Antarctic sea-elephant 

 hunters to "lean" or remove flesh from the blubber. 



Seal flaying knife. 



Steel blade, curved, single edge. Hard-wood handle. Length : blade, 



6 inches; handle, 4J inches. New London, Conn., 1880. 57,690. 

 Gift of Lawrence & Co. Used by Antarctic fur-seal hunters. 



Seal flaying knives. 



Steel blades, curved, single edge, 5 to 7 inches long. Hard- wood 

 handles. Centennial collection, 1876. 26,211-26,213, 26,169- 

 26,171,26,179-26,181, 26,185-26,190. Made by John Eussell 

 Cutlery Company, Turner's Falls, Mass. Used by the seal and 

 sea-elephant hunters of Connecticut in the Antarctic seal 

 fisheries. 



Skinning knife. 



Slate blade, bowie-knife pattern, in end of wooden handle, served 

 with strip of bark of cedar root. Length, 11 inches. Cape 

 -Vancouver, Alaska, 1880. 43,482. E. W, Nelson. 



Skinning knife. 



Arrow-shaped, slate-blade, sharp on both edges, set in the end of a 

 wooden handle. Dug up on the site of an old village. Length, 



7 inches. Saint Michael's, Norton Sound, Alaska. 43,431. 

 E. W. Nelson. 



Knife, steel, and sheath. 



Case containing knife and steel. Sheath made at sea; wood, two 

 pieces bound with brass hoops; leathern guard or strap for 

 attaching case to waist-belt; stamped with ornamental design 



