. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 264 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 19(X).. Fig. 57. TOGGLE HEAD, TAKEN FRuM DEAD WHALE. Cumberland Sound. Collected by Ludwigr Kumlein, after Franz Boas. C:at. No. 34069. end which tits into the horizontal bore and a >)utton or stop. These two thongs unite about a foot below the head to form one con- tinuous line. Length of head, 3f inches. A broad, flat harpoon head (Cat. No. 34069, ) of walrus ivory (tokang), taken
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 264 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 19(X).. Fig. 57. TOGGLE HEAD, TAKEN FRuM DEAD WHALE. Cumberland Sound. Collected by Ludwigr Kumlein, after Franz Boas. C:at. No. 34069. end which tits into the horizontal bore and a >)utton or stop. These two thongs unite about a foot below the head to form one con- tinuous line. Length of head, 3f inches. A broad, flat harpoon head (Cat. No. 34069, ) of walrus ivory (tokang), taken from a large Balmia myi^ticetus caught in Cumberland Sound in 1S78. is shown in fig. 57. This specimen was collected by Ludwig Kumlein. The body is Ungulate in form, with a sharper curve below. The iron blade, ))roken off at the point, is deep, set into a saw cut, and riveted with iron. Near the left-hand corner is bored a blade hole for a securing line. The line hole is large, curved upward, and the grooves are deep for the thick rawhide line, but they do not perforate the head and they are not seen on the back of the toggle head. The butt end is gouged out in a spoon-shaped cavity and is bifur- cated to form two barbs, and these are split at their hinder extremity. The tips of the barbs have ornamental notches. The socket below the plane of the barbs is wide and shallow. Mr. Kumlein believes that this head was thrust into the whale while it was a year- ling, as the Eskimo do not attack a large one with their own weapons. Length, 4 inches.^ A loose head of a seal lance (Cat. No. 34008, ) is shown in fig. 58. Body is of ivory, blade pentagonal in shape, and fast- ened in with a rivet. The bod}- is conoid in form, with a square base. The socket for the end of the foreshaft is conical, and alongside of this at the margin two holes are bored, opposite each other, perpendicular for a notch, at which point the}^ are met b}' two other. Please note that these images are extrac
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