22 ANIMAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
3. KNIVES—Continued. 
a. Straight knives: 
Mackerel rimmers or fatting knives. 
(Swords, including the various forms incidentally used in 
hunting, sabers, cutlasses, machétes, creases, &e.) 
Stone and bone knives, used by Indians and Eskimos. 
Skin scrapers and parers, used in preparing leather. 
‘b, Clasp-knives: 
Sailors’ clasp-knives. 
Hunters’ clasp-knives. 
Clasp-dirks. 
Jockey knives. 
4, AXES: 
a. Axes, proper: 
Tomahawks. 
Hatchets. 
Whaleman’s boat-hatchets. 
Cleavers. 
Axes, used by fishermen and hunters. 
Head-axes for whalemen. 
b. Cutting-spades: 
Whale-spades: 
Cutting-spades. 
Throat-spades, flat and round shank. 
Wide spades. 
Half-round spades. 
Head-spades. 
Blubber-mincing knives. 
Chopping-knives. 
*** For thrusting. 
5. THRUSTING SPEARS AND PRODS: 
a. Fishing-lances. 
Whale-lances. 
Whaleman’s boat-spades, thick and thin. 
Seal-lances. 
Fish-lances. 
b. Hunting-spears. 
ce. Bayonets. 
d, Prodding-awls, used in piercing the base of the brain in killing 
fish for the table. 
