10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOGGLE HARPOON»
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1
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico
There are two quite different varieties of harpoons, based on the shape of the
head — the barbed harpoon and the toggle harpoon. The head of the barbed
harpoon is attached to the shaft by means ot a connecting line tied to the butt or
tang of ...
Frederick Webb Hodge,
2003
2
Black Heritage Sites: An African American Odyssey and ...
Lewis Temple, a Black metalsmith who operated a whalecraft shop in New
Bedford, invented the toggle harpoon in 1848. Unlike older harpoons that often
slipped out allowing the whale to escape, Temple's toggle device snapped shut
and ...
3
Hunters in Transition: Mesolithic Societies of Temperate ...
Western Jomon Coastal area Tokai and Kanto Districts Coastal area Tohoku and
Hokkaido Districts Fishing gear assemblage Toggle harpoon head of open
socket type Toggle harpoon head of closed socket type One-piece fishhook
Fishhook ...
4
Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone
It is worth noting that toggle harpoon heads of the northern Pacific are mostly in
use in those places where the sea is often covered by floating ice but hunting
from the boats is still possible. Where there is no floating ice, e.g. adjacent to the
...
5
The Basking Shark in Scotland: Natural History, Fishery and ...
For the 1945 season he changed to a toggle harpoon forged by a Mallaig
blacksmith and had the barb made 'flattened and slightly "scooped" ', claiming to
have invented this type, although it was in fact just a variety of the toggle harpoon
...
6
Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia
This continuum is indicated by D the persistence of a well-developed marine
technology (harpoon assemblages with toggle harpoon heads, sealing darts cast
by throwing boards, skin-covered boats (kayak and umiak), lances, rawhide lines,
...
Guy E. Gibbon, Kenneth M. Ames,
1998
7
The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity
with influencing William Lloyd Garrison to stand against the evils of colonization.5
Inventor Lewis Temple (1800-1854), born in Richmond, Virginia, originated a
whaling harpoon usually known as the toggle harpoon that revolutionized the ...
Patricia Carter Sluby,
2004
What is known to Whalers as a toggle-harpoon is a modification of the lily-iron,
but so greatly changed by the addition of a pivot by which the head of the
harpoon is fastened to the shank that it can hardly be regarded as the same
weapon.
9
Survival Skills of the North American Indians
Two-pronged toggle harpoon Toggle harpoon used to pull in the fish. The cord
was tied around the head, or through a hole in the head, and the other end was
fastened to the shaft. More often, both the head and the shaft were fastened to a ...
10
Encyclopedia of the Arctic
Walrus ivory was used to carve three ice picks and a toggle harpoon head. The
toggling harpoon head was of archaic type, with an asymmetrical spur, a
singleline hole, open socket, lashing groove for a binding to secure the foreshaft
in the ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOGGLE HARPOON»
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The Legacy of Lewis Temple
“Temple's Toggle” revolutionized whaling, its inventor Lewis Temple left a lasting ... Lewis Temple, whose invention of the toggle harpoon in 1848 inspired the ... «SouthCoastToday.com, Jan 14»