. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. The blade in this example niissiiii^. and was inserted in a saw cut at the rounded end of the body and held in place by a rivet. The shaft socket is a conical hole centered between the back and the front surfaces and flanked b}^ barbs whose points are formed hy the meeting of the })ack, the belly, and the socket or excavation in the rear for the foreshaft. The line hole is formed hj the meet- ing of tAVo holes bored in from the under si
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. The blade in this example niissiiii^. and was inserted in a saw cut at the rounded end of the body and held in place by a rivet. The shaft socket is a conical hole centered between the back and the front surfaces and flanked b}^ barbs whose points are formed hy the meeting of the })ack, the belly, and the socket or excavation in the rear for the foreshaft. The line hole is formed hj the meet- ing of tAVo holes bored in from the under side and not quite through to the top. Line grooves project backward from the line hole so as to render all smooth to prevent the thong from chafing. Length, 21 inches. A combined barbed and toggle head (Cat. No. 45886, ) from Avest Greenland is shown in fig. 29, and is a gift of the Copenhagen Museum. The l)ody is of bone, the back being formed of the hard or outside portion. The kerf for the blade is wide, and the latter, missing in this specimen,was fastened in with a rivet. On either side of the blade are two marginal barbs, cut out squarely as with a saw; from the tang of these barbs the bod}- widens out to the tip end of the spur or flukes. The line hole is formed by two distinct conical bores, which meet at their inner extremities, forming at the same time a continuous cavit}^ and line grooves. The butt is bifurcated, and the cavit}' for the end of the foreshaft seems to have been bored out after the barbs were formed. This fine old piece is worth}' of note in that both types of harpoon head, the barbed and the tog- gle, are pi-eserved. The specimen represents also what Murdoch considers to be the original form, since the barbs, the blade, and the line hole are in the same plane, while in the better and more improved varieties the blade is set in at right angles to the line hole. A barbed harpoon head of bone (Cat. No. 45887, ), all in one piece, from north
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