Boat-spade and cutting-spades.

Whaling Source Whalesite

Plate 205

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THE WHALE FISHERY.
Boat-spade and cutting-spades.

(Sect. v, vol. ii, pp. 264, 277, 281.)

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Fig. 1.	Boat spado (b) and sheath (a); formerly used to disable a running whale.
Fig. 2.	The narrow-cutting spade or thin boat-spade.
Fig. 3.	The flat or round shank spade used to cut a passage for the "head-strap" to hoist in the head of the right whale or bowhead, and to remove the throat-bone (whalebone).
Fig. 4.	Cutting spade for "scarfing."
Fig. 5.	Cutting spade for "leaning up."
Fig. 6.	Half-round spade.

Source.

George Brown Goode.
The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States.
Section V, History and Methods of the Fisheries ... Plates.
1887.
At head of title page: "United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner."
Also on title page: "Prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates."
Also published as: Serial Set Vol. No. 2003, (47th Congress, 1st Session. Vol. No. 11, Misc.Doc. 124, pt. 7.)
288 p.
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