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Eskimo harpoon. 



Handle, wood, tipped with head of an animal carved in bone ; bone 

 shank inserted in recess of tip and lashed with rawhide to 

 handle ; end of handle near tip served with strips of baleen 

 and rawhide ; small seal head carved in bone and seized to 

 central part of handle, used as a finger rest and as a stop for 

 the line. Wanting, harpoon butt and head. Total length, 54 

 inches. Sledge Island, Alaska. 45,415. Collected by B. W. 

 Nelson. 



Walrus harpoons. 



Common toggle- irons ; shanks, wrought iron; toggles, malleable 

 cast iron, mortised ; stamped " L. Cole " (manufacturer). Total 

 length (56,415), 22 inches ; total length (56,413), 22£ inches ; 

 length of toggles, 6 inches. Fairhaven, Mass., 1883. IT. S. 

 Fish Commission. Used by whalemen in the Arctic Regions 

 in the capture of walrus. 



Walrus-spear. 



Detachable head, bone, tipped with slate ; lashed with raw hide to 

 a light wooden handle. Total length, 24£ inches. Bristol Bay, 

 Alaska, 1882. 72,418. Collected by Chas. L. McKay. 



Walrus-harpoon. 



End recessed for pole ; rigid eye for lanyard. Length, 5 inches. 

 Eskimo, Igloolik. 10,136. Collected by Capt. C. F. Hall. 



Sea-otter spear and buoy. 



A short, round, ivory head, driven into long, light cedar staff, 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 buoy, made of seal intestine, is attached 

 to staff near butt. Length : staff, 45f inches ; head, 3 inches ; 

 tip, 5 inches. Tshernoburo Island, Cook's Inlet, Alaska, 1882. 

 72,518. Collected by William J. Fisher. Native names: The 

 whole spear, Pi-shu-dak ; socket or bone head, Kag-li-shwik ; 

 bladder, Ak-tshuk; line, Puhn-ak; staff, Tu-puh-gat; tip, 

 Tshi-guik. 



Harpoon-head and float-line. 



Head, walrus ivory, with iron tip riveted with native copper ; line, 

 walrus hide ; bight caught in rigid eye of harpoon and seized 

 with strips of baleen. Length of head, 4f inches ; of line, 107 

 feet. Point Tchaptin, Siberia. 49,151. Collected by E. W. 

 Nelson. 



