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. 



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. 



c. Bayonets. 



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



fish for the table. 



