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Seal-spear (model.) 



Arrow-shaped,. adjustable ivory head, with iron blade; long, ivory 

 shank in cedar staff. Line, fine sinew sennit. Length, 18 

 inches. Anderson River District, 1866. 1,678. R. Macfarlane. 



Seal-harpoon. 



Heavy, ivory head, driven into light cedar staff, and secured by 

 seizing of fine sinew; wooden socket in end receives adjustable 

 barbed tip, to which is fastened tlie line, made of seal or wal- 

 rus hide. Length : staff, 47J inches ; head, 3J inches ; tip, 2£ 

 inches. Saint Michael's, Norton Sound, Alaska, 1878. 33,871. 

 Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Eskimo seal-harpoon. 



Pole, wood, 1 inch in diameter ; butt recessed to receive a recurved 

 bone spear, which is -lashed with seal-skin; ivory peg for grip, 

 lashed to pole with seal-skin ; tip mounted with a bulb-like 

 ivory head recessed for shank ; shank, ivory, fastened to line 

 with a seal-skin lanyard or becket; lily-iron, ivory, tipped 

 with iron ; rigid eye for line ; seal-skin line attached to head. 

 Total length, 9 feet 2 inches. Norton Sound, Alaska, 1874. 

 33,888. Collected by E. W. Nelson. Combined harpoon and 

 lance, manufactured and used by natives in the capture of seal. 



Seal-harpoon. 



Heavy, ivory head, driven into light cedar staff, and secured by 

 seizing of fine sinew; wooden socket in end receives adjustable 

 barbed tip, to which is fastened the line, made of seal or wal- 

 rus hide. Length : staff, 44 inches ; head, 4f inches ; tip, 3£ 

 inches. Saint Michael's, Norton Sound, Alaska, 1878. 33,909. 

 Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Seal-harpoon. 



Heavy, ivory head, driven into light cedar staff, and secured by 

 seizing of fine sinew ; wooden socket in end receives adjustable 

 tip, to which is fastened the line. Length : staff, 51| inches ; 

 head, 4 inches. Saint Michael's, Norton Sound, Alaska, 1878. 

 33,925. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Harpoons. 



Shafts of cedar, oval in cross-section, fitted into bone heads, in 

 outer end of which are wooden plugs in which are inserted 

 barbed-bone points secured to heads by lanyards. On middle 

 of shafts are fastened bone finger-cleats, and near ends are 

 lashed seal-bladder buoys, with bone mouthpieces; harpoon 

 line is attached to lanyard of shaft. Length, 4 to 5 feet; bone 

 heads, 7 inches ; points, 3 to 5 inches. Alaska. Collected by 



