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Apparatus used in the Northern Whale Fishery, Plate XXI

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Plate XXI showing ice and fishing apparatus. Items are numbered for identification in the explanation of plates. The instruments consist of: 1. ice-axe; 2, 3. ice-anchors; 4. bay ice-anchor; 5. blubber pump; 6. bone hand-spike; 7. ice-saw; 8. another saw, for thinner ice. Text below the image gives the attributions and "Scale. One Inch to a Foot."


whales
1820-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Lizars, W & D; Constable And Co.
ink; paper; mounting
8 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in
Britain: Edinburgh