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INDEX OF OBJECTS. 



Baskets used by Indians 362 



Basque whalemen 276 



Bass, canned 1066 



in Great Lakes 1044 



in Southern States 1045 



sea - 1169 



striped 1169,1170 



Bass-drails 928 



flies 931-945 



trap 1023 



Bastard snapper, ovaries of 1 198 



Batrachians, casts of 5 



Batrachus tau, ovaries of 1195 



Beam trawls 562-565,996 



Bear-skin caps 365 



cloak 374 



Bear-trap 1027 



Beaver furs 1048,1117,1118 



Bed clothing '. 799,801,811 



Belaying pins 662,754 



Bell, cook's 820 



whaleman's 352 



Belly -hand 352 



Belts, whaleman's 342 



Beluga harpoons 378, 379, 876, 893, 894 



lance-butts 383, 893, 894 



oil 1146 



Benedict rake-dredge 561, 562 



Berths 678,680 



Bethels 809 



Bibles or hooks of blubber 292 



Bidaika 706,720 



Bidarra 706 



Bilge-hooks 779 



Binnacle 680 



Birch bark for torches 1029 



Bird-furs 1048, 1119 



Birds, analysis of exhibits 5 



catalogueof 139-184 



mounted groups 181-184 



Bivalve shell fish 246-267 



Black bass, sketches of 903 



Blackflsh, cast of head 639 



blubber-hook 335 



fishery 299, 633 



gear 912 



head oil 1146,1147 



hooks 926 



irons 872,873 



poke for buoy 304 



Black-skin 359 



Black whale 635,642 



Bladder wrack -. 1150 



Blake, description of steamer 554-559 



dredge 560 



trawl 563-565 



Blankets 362, 799 



Blind boat-steerer 343 



Block Island boat 718 



Blocks 662, 737, 738, 739, 740 



blubber 333 



dredge 573,574 



Blubber-chains 338 



fids 291,338 



forks 345 



Blubber-gaffs 345 



hooks 290,334,335 



knives 291,292,339,340,341 



pikes 287,344 



spades .- 288, 289, 337 



tackle 333 



toggles 290,291,338 



Bluefish, canned 1066,1107 



drails 928 



hooks 926 



in Middle States 1045 



in Southern States 1045 



jigs 928 



ovaries of 1195 



sketchesof 90 



tackle 905,913 



Boarding houses 808 



knives 287, 291, 292, 389, 340 



Boats 656,685-708,717-720 



bark 706,719,720 



Block Island 718 



carry-away 694 



cat-rigged 689 



Dhebacco 653, 671 



Chesapeake 708 



Chinese 720 



cutter 689, 717 



dugout 719 



flat-bottom 698 



portable 702 



round-bottom 694 



salmon 695 



sardine 718 



schooner-rigged 693 



seine 694,697,718 



sharpy 718 



sloop-rigged 689 



Skin 706,720 



square-stern 694 



Boat-bucket 276, 303, 304 



builders' materials 759 



detaching apparatus r 766, 767 



dredge 559,560 



fittings, analysis of exhibits 12, 13 



gear, whalemens' 276 



grapnel in whale-boat 302 



header 276 



hooks 662,749,750,751 



hook, whaleman's 290, 333, 334 



horn 304 



lanterns 303,304 



piggin 304 



shop 721 



spades 288,289,302,337 



steerer 276,301 



waifs 348 



Bob, mackerel 863 



Bolts 762 



Bomb-harpoons 284, 319 



lance harpoon 286 



lances 285, 286, 328-332 



Bone 1048,1128-1132 



Bone-dust of sturgeon 1136 



Bone hooks 363,919 



Boneless cod 1100,1102,1117 



