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, machetes, creases, &c.) 



Stone and bone knives, used by Indians and Eskimos. 



Skin scrapers and parers, used in preparing leather. 

 &. 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. 

 h. Cutting-spades: 

 Whale- spades: 



Cutting-spades. 



Throat-spades, flat and round shank. 



Wide spades. 



Half-round spades. 



Head-spades. 

 Blubber-mincing knives. 

 Chopping-kuives. 



*** For thrusting. 



5. THRUSTING SPEARS AND PRODS: 



a. Fishing-lances. 



Whale-lances. 



Whaleman's boat-spades, thick and thin. 



Seal-lances. 



Fish-lances. 

 o. Hunting-spears. 



c. Bayonets. 



d. Prodding-awls, used in piercing the base of the brain in killing 



fish for the table. 



