[59] FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 883 



Seal-speak — Continued. 



Length: staff, 52 inches; head, 6| inches; tip, If inches. 

 Ooglaamie, Point Barrow, Alaska, 1882. 72,792. Collected 

 by Lieut. P. H. Eay, TJ. S. A. 



Seal-spear. 



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

 ing of fine sinew ; wooden socket in end receives adjustable 

 barbed tip, to which is fastened the line made of sinew sennit. 

 Length: staff, 49f inches; head, 6 inches ; tip, 1 J inches. Oog- 

 laamie, Point Barrow, Alaska, 1882. 72,793. Collected by 

 Lieut. P. H. Ray, U. S. A. 



Seal-spear. (Model.) 



Ivory, arrow-shaped, adjustable head, with long shank in cedar 

 staff. Length, 20£ inches. Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1874. 

 15,631. Collected by H. W. Elliott. 



Seal-spear. 



Frobisher Bay, 1864-'69. ]0,264. Collected by Capt. C. F. Hall. 



Seal spear or lance. 



Long, round, ivory blade, in larger ivory shank; secured in heavy 

 cedar staff by serving of sinew sennit. Length, 58 inches. 

 King William's Land, 1864. 10,271. Collected by Capt. C. F. 

 Hall. 



Seal-spear. 



Four conjoined pieces ; lance-point, bone, rigidly fastened into the 

 recessed bulb- shaped end of shank ; shank, walrus bone, cham- 

 fered at rear extremity and lashed to the handle with seal- 

 sinew ; handle, wood ; butt, recessed ; small bone butt-piece 

 inserted in recess and lashed with seal-skin ; lance-strap seal- 

 skin. Length, 65 inches. KiDg William's Land, 1864-'69. 

 10,272. Collected by Capt. C. F. Hall. 



Seal and walrus spear. 



A short, round, ivory head, rudely ornamented with incised lines, 

 driven into heavy cedar handle and secured by seizing of fine 

 sinew; wooden socket in end receives adjustable barbed ivory 

 tip, to which is fastened the line, made of sinew sennit ; small 

 ivory pin in butt. Length : Staff, 51£ inches ; head, 4J inches; 

 tip, 3£ inches. Nunivak Island, Alaska, 1880. 48,372. Col- 

 lected by E. W. Nelson. 



Miniature harpoon (Oon-a-gag-u-uk). 



Blade, head, and shank, ivory ; cedar staff; line, thin strip of seal- 

 skin. Longth, 16 J inches. Saint Michael's, Norton Sound, 

 Alaska, 1878. 33,840. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



