104 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



SIGHT-DECOYS. 



Lanterns and other apparatus for fire hunting and fishing. 



42843. Fishing-jack, dash and camp lamp combined; with head, pole, and 

 dash attachments. Bums signal, sperm or lard and kerosene mixed. 

 Manufactured and i)atented by Albert Ferguson, New York. U. S. 

 Fish Commission. (C. B. & M.) 



Lanterns and torches for weequashing, or fire-fishing for eels, her- 

 ring, &G. 



29365. Boat-lanterns. Used in bow of boat in weequashiug or spearing 



eels by night. Southern New England, James H. Latham, Noank, 



Conn. 

 J2107. Birch-bark used for torchlight fishing. Passamaquoddy Indians. 



Eastport, Me. Dr. E. Palmer. 



Oil painting by J. S. Eyder, Boston, Mass. '' Fire-fishing for her- 

 ring in Provincetowu Harbor." U. S. Fish Commission. 



IX. PDRSUIT; ITS METHODS AND APPLIANCES. 



24. Methods of transportation. 

 BOATS. 



Birch-bark canoes. 



Used by Indians in hunting and fishing. 



2661.5. Canoe with two Indians fishing. Northern United States. U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Wooden sea canoes. 



Used by Indians of northwest coast in hunting and fishing. 



1785. Wooden canoe. (Model.) Northwest coast. Dr. George Suckley. 



Wooden canoes. 



Used by Indians of the northwest coast in whaling and sea fisheries. 

 21594. Wooden canoe. (Model.) Alaska. Dr. J. B. White. 

 1G269. Wooden canoe. (Model, painted.) Ihliuket Tribe. Sitka, Alaska. 

 W. H. Dall. 

 640. Wooden canoe. (Model.) Northwest coast. George Gibbs. 



Kyaks or bidarkas. 



Used by Eskimos of Arctic America in hunting and fishing.- 

 26617. Kyak. (13 feet 9 inches long, 30 inches wide.) Northwest coast, 



Sitka, Alaska. William Burling. 

 16275. Kyak. (Model.) Kodiak. 



21605. Kyak. (Model, 3-hole.) Alaska. Dr. J. B. White. 

 14750. Kyak. (Model, with bird-spear, harpoon, and seal-skin float.) E8» 

 kimos, Tnsiack, North Greenland. Prof. S. F. Baird. 



Umiaks or bidarras. 



Used by Eskimos in whaling and sea fisheries. , 



1098. Umiak. (Model.) Fort Anderson, H. B. T. Robert MacFarlane. 



