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    The toggling harpoon is an ancient weapon and tool used in whaling to impale a whale when thrown. Unlike earlier harpoon versions which had only one point...
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    with barb or toggling claws, allowing the fishermen or hunters to use an attached rope or chain to pull and retrieve the animal. A harpoon can also be...
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  • Look up toggle or toggling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Toggle may refer to: Toggle mechanism Toggle switch Toggling harpoon, an ancient weapon...
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  • successful in whaling. In the mid-19th century the one flue harpoon was replaced by the toggling harpoon, which was an iron version of the ancient design used...
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  • Hak Jaculum Javelin Lancea Pilum Plumbata Soliferrum Spiculum Verutum Assegai (Africa) Djerid (Asia Minor, India and Africa) Toggling harpoon (Americas)...
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    supplemented the tensile strength of the bow. War harpoon War club Throwing spear Cable-backed bow Bolas Toggling harpoon Kakivak Ulu Snow knife Inuit axe Inuit...
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    Lancea (weapon) Leister Mesangylon One flue harpoon Plumbata Soliferrum Vel Toggling harpoon Two flue harpoon Yari Schmitt, U.; Singh, A. P.; Thieme, H...
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    one-flue harpoon was created. By removing half of the point, the chance of the point cutting its way back out of the whale was greatly reduced. Toggling harpoon...
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    Temple was an African-American blacksmith who invented the toggle iron, a type of toggling harpoon, which revolutionized the whaling industry and enabled...
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    the late Vinča period (Vinča D; c. 4850-4500 cal BC) appeared first toggling harpoon. Vinča agriculture introduced common wheat, oat and flax to temperate...
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    red ochre, a Nicoleño harpoon tip, glass projectile points and metal artifacts, and several Native Alaskan toggling harpoon tips. In 2012, Navy archaeologist...
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  • Lochaber axe Morning star Pernach Shashka Snow knife Spear Stone war club Toggling harpoon Tomahawk Ulu War hatchet Wooden war club Colt Single Action Army Coach...
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  • Rotary vane pump – invented by Charles Barnes and patented in 1874 Toggling harpoon – an Inuit tool used by Inuit while whale or seal hunting to impale...
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  • sea mammals. Various stone and ivory tools were found, including a toggle harpoon, used for hunting sea mammals. The emergence of hunting sea mammals...
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    United Kingdom United States Harpoons Explosive harpoon Jarmann harpoon rifle One-flue harpoon Toggling harpoon Two-flue harpoon Hunting type Aboriginal whaling...
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  • were used to pull the dog sled along the harsh Canadian winter snows. Toggling harpoon – first used by the Red Paint People of the North American east coast...
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    whale boats were rowed from the shore, and if the whale was successfully harpooned and lanced to death, it was towed ashore, flensed (i.e., its blubber was...
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  • including barbed bone points; daggers of ivory, antler, or bone; toggling harpoons; shell-beaded clothing; and a burial suit made from more than 200...
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    polar bear were found in association with stone tools, as well as a toggling harpoon head made of walrus tusk. The tools show cultural similarities to other...
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    population in the seas. Whales are killed at sea often using explosive harpoons, which puncture the skin of a whale and then explode inside its body. Anti-whaling...
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  • The Dorset people continued Paleo-Eskimo traditions, such as using toggling harpoons and kept a small breed of dog. In addition to seal and walrus, they...
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    ways of processing food were introduced. Material remains include toggling harpoons, netweights, ground slate points, nets, ulus (chopping knife). The...
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    advanced, introducing more specialized barb fish spears and composite toggling harpoons. Other technology was used as well, including nets and weirs. Trade...
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  • technologies available, such as the winter harpoons and summer harpoons. Winter harpoons, such as the toggling harpoon, were made of wood, iron, and brass....
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  • Thunderbird Park (Victoria, British Columbia) Thule people Tlingit language Toggling harpoon Totem pole Travois Treaty of 1818 Treaty of Fort Niagara Treaty of...
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    vicinity of the settlement was populated during neolithic times, and a toggled harpoon head found in a grave indicated that there was a viable walrus hunting...
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    Yup'ik/Cup'ik dance mask (kegginaquq) with the head of walrus yua. Toggle harpoon points are appended to the lower face, over which two walrus figures...
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    introduce to Greenland such technological innovations as dog sleds and toggling harpoons. There is an account of contact and conflict with the Norse population...
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    the recently invented exploding harpoon and gun on steam powered chaser boats, rather than the old toggling harpoons. Approximately 4,000 whales were...
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  • (Ukraine) settlement which reached 15,000–18,000 inhabitants. 4130 BC: Toggling harpoons are invented somewhere in eastern Siberia, spreading south into Japan...
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