Add to ORKGharp nThese two especial types of Hair Seals have been known colloquially from time immemorial to all in Newfoundland - as the "Harps" and the "Hoods" - these descriptive names having been given to them from certain respective characteristics which appealed, from their shape and oddity, to the imagination of the Island's fishermen and sealers of the earliest days.PRINTED ITEM DNE-citG. M. Story JUN 1970 JH JUL 1970Used IUsed I1Not used'Harps' appears under the singular forn 'harp' in the DNE