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Harpoon or seal-spear. 



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

 seizing of fine sinew ; wooden socket in end receives adjust- 

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

 walrus hide. Length: staff, 44g inches; head, 3| inches; tip, 

 2 inches. Saint Michael's, Norton Sound, Alaska, 1878. 33,986. 

 Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Harpoon or seal-spear. 



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

 seizing of fine sinew ; wooden socket in end receives adjust- 

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

 walrus hide. Length : staff, 45£ inches ; head, 4 inches ; tip, 

 2£ incbes. Saint Michael's, Norton Sound, Alaska, 1878. 

 33,987. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Harpoon or seal-spear. 



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

 seizing of fine sinew; wooden socket in end receives adjust- 

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

 walrus hide. Length: staff, 45 inches; head, 4£ inches; tip, 

 3£ inches. Saint Michael's, Norton Sound, Alaska, 1878. 

 34,007. Collected by E, W. Nelson. 



Seal-spear. 



Heavy, bone head, driven into light cedar staff and secured by seiz- 

 ing of fine sinew; wooden socket in end receives detachable 

 barbed ivory tip, through which the line is rove. Length: 

 staff, 48^ inches; head, 5 inches; tip, 2% inches. Lower 

 Yukon Elver, Alaska, 1879. 36,088. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Seal-harpoon. 



Pole, wood; lance, walrus ivory, seized to butt with seal thongs; 

 grip, ivory, carved in imitation of head of seal ; tip of pole 

 served with alternate layers of black and transparent strips of 

 baleen; head-piece, ivory, recessed for ivory shank, lashed to 

 pole with a seal thong. Harpoon wanting. Length, 11 feet. 

 Golofnin. Bay, Alaska. 43,346. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 

 Harpoon and lance combined. 



Seal-spear (toy model). 



Arrow-shaped iron blade in adjustable ivory head, with ivory shank. 

 Cedar staff. Length, 13J inches. Cape Nome, Alaska, 1880. 

 44,666. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



Seal-spear. 



Pole, wood ; spear or lance, bone, lashed to butt with a seal thong ; 

 grip, ivory, carved in imitation of head of seal, lashed to cen- 



