844 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [20] 



Mackerel plow. 



Steel blade ; plain ash handle. Length, 7 inches. Gloucester, Mass., 

 1876. 25,770. Gift of Samuel Elwell, jr. 



Mackerel plow. 



Steel blade, semicircular edge ; plain cedar handle. Length, 7^ 

 inches. Gloucester, Mass., 1876. 25,769. Gift of Samuel El- 

 well, jr. 



Mackerel plow. 



Steel blade ; oak handle, profusely ornamented with pewter ; 

 marked " E. B." Length, 7| inches. Centennial collection, 

 1876. 26,768. Gift of Edwin Blatchford. 



Mackerel plow. 



Factory made. S1eel blade; walnut handle, with brass shaft. 

 Length, 7£ inches. Provincetown, Mass., 1876. 25,720. Gift 

 of Central Wharf Company. 



Mackerel plow. 



Steel blade, three-cornered ; ash handle. Length, 7§ inches. 

 Harwichport, Mass., 1875. 25,674. Gift of Sanford Freeman. 



SCRAPERS AND INSHAVES. 

 SCRAPER. 



Boughly made handle, wood; half ovate blade, with spur for in- 

 sertion in handle; metal ferrule. Length, 8^ inches. New Bed- 

 ford, Mass., 1882. 57,074. Gift of Jonathan Bourne. May be 



j. v ; used as a bone-scraper or inshave. 



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BONE-SCRAPER. 



Handle of wood; blade of common hoop-iron, riveted to handle; 

 roughly made. Length, 8£ inches. New London, Conn., 1882. 

 57,072. Gift of Lawrence & Co. 



Bone-scraper. 



Handle of rough wood; shank and iron ovate frame forming the 

 blade, common hoop-iron, slotted in handle; blade riveted to 

 shank. A very old specimen. Length, 11£ inches. New 

 Bedford, Mass., 1882. 57,076. Gift of Thomas Knowles & Co. 



Cooper's inshave. 



Handle, wood ; frame, acute-ovate, with forward cutting-edge, riv. 

 eted to handle. Length, 7 inches. New Bedford, Mass., 1882. 

 57,075. Gift of Thomas Knowles & Co. An old inshave, used 

 for many years on a whaling vessel. 



