[63] FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 887 



HARPOON-HEAD. 



A detachable harpoon-head, bone, tipped with brass. Length, 9 

 inches. Ooglaamie, Point Barrow, Alaska, 1882. 56,601. 

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



Bone harpoon-head. 



Length, 7£ inches. Bristol Bay, Alaska, 1882. 72,395. Collected 

 by C. L. McKay. 



Salmon spear-heads (2.) 



Straight iron points, with bone barbs forming socket; wrapped 

 with bark of spruce root (?) and thickly pitched; joined by 

 rawhide ganging. Quilleute Indians, about thirty miles south 

 of Cape Flattery. Length, 4 inches. Washington Territory, 

 1883. 72,839. James G. Swan, Port Townsend, Wash. Used 

 on a pole with two prongs like seal spears. 



Seal harpoon-head. 



Walrus ivory, tipped with brass ; lanyard, seal-hide. Length of 

 head, 3 inches ; of lanyard, 8 feet 8 inches. Cape Lisburne, 

 Alaska, 49,034. Collected by W. H. Dall. Made and used 

 by Eskimo. 



Seal harpoon-head. 



Walrus ivory, with brass tip ; lanyard, rawhide, seized with sinew 

 of seal. Length of head, 3J inches ; of lanyard, 16f inches. 

 Eskimo, Cape Lisburne. 46,038. Collected by W. H. Dall. 



Seal harpoon-head. 



Walrus ivory, tipped with iron ; lanyard of rawhide ; bights seized 

 with seal sinew. Length of head, 3 inches; of lanyard, 51 

 inches. Cape Lisburne, Alaska. 46,035. Collected by Wm. 

 H. Dall. Made and used by Eskimo. 



Seal harpoon-head. 



Ivory, tipped with brass ; lanyard, rawhide, seized with seal sinews. 

 Length of head, 3£ inches ; of lanyard, 13 inches. Eskimo, 

 Cape Lisburne. 46,033. Collected by Wm. H. Dall. 



Seal harpoon-head. 



Walrus ivory, tipped with brass ; new ; lanyard, rawhide ; bight 

 seized with seal sinew. Length of head, 3 inches ; of lanyard, 

 59 inches. Eskimo, Cape Lisburne, Arctic Ocean. 46,032. 

 Collected by Wm. H. Dall. 



Seal harpoon-head. 



Walrus ivory, with brass tip riveted with native copper ; lanyard, 

 rawhide ; bights in the ends of lanyard seized with seal sinew. 



