Description

Tools used to process whale blubber. Items are numbered for identification in the explanation of plates. The instruments consist of: 1. blubber knife; 2. chopping knife; 3. strand-knife; 4. tail-knife; 5. bone-geer; 6. bone-wedge; 7. mik or rest for the harpoon; 8. third-hand, used in flensing; 9. pick-haak; 10 closh; 11. grapnel; 12. ice-grapnel, used in warping; 13. krenging-hook; 14. krenging-knife; 15. spurs; 16. axe; 17. snatch-block.