harps

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/35400

harp n Newfoundland has a name for every age and kind of both harps and hoods. This nomenclature is important for us to know. In the first place, "harps" are so called because they have a patch of brown hair on the shoulders roughly resembling a harp. These seals are from five to seven feet long, and when full grown are a kind of indigo blue-black, fading into gray, and with a white belly. The face is dark gray, the muzzle black; whiskers or "smellers"/ long and curved; eyes a liquid brown .The flippers bear nails of bluish hue. Sometimes harps are called "half-moon seals." PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit JAN 1975 W.J.KIRWIN JH JAN 1975 Used I Used I 1 Used I [see 'half-moon seals] 'Harps' appears in DNE under singular form 'harp'.