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PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



Fig. 44 is a reproduction of one of the represented specimens characterized 

 as fish-hooks.* It was found at Wangen, and is said to consist of bone.f If, 

 indeed, the object was applied as a fish-hook, it can, of course, only have served 



for catching larger kinds of fish. 



Fig. 44.— Wangen. Fia. 45.— Jloosseedorf. Fio. 40.— Moosseeclorf. 



Figs. 44-46. — Fish-hooks of deer-horn and boars' tusks. 



The original of Fig. 45 is described by Dr. Keller as " a fish-hook made of 

 the tusk of a wild boar. "J To judge from the illustration, the specimen, which 

 was obtained at Moosseedorf, is in its present form of rather unpromising 

 appearance ; but it seems that a portion of the hook has been removed by 

 fracture. While complete, it may have fulfilled its purpose well enough. 



Thei'e can be no doubt as to the character of the original of Fig. 46, which 

 was also found at Moosseedorf, and is thus described: — "Fish-hook made of a 

 boar's tusk ; it was manufactured in the following manner : two holes were bored 

 through it, the space between them was cleared awaj^, and the whole was then 

 finished by scraping-tools. "§ 



Figs. 47 and 48 are reproductions of designs representing two well-defined 

 bone fish-hooks from Wangen, somewhat resembling that just described. The 

 shanks, however, show no incision for the attachment of a line, as in the preceding 

 case. They were exhibited at Berlin in 1880.|| 



* Amtliche Berichte iiber die Internationale Pisclierei-Au.sstellung zu Berlin, 1880. — Wissenschaftlicha 

 Abtheilung. Geschichte der Fischerei (von E. Friedel) ; Berlin, 1881 ; p. 128, Fig. 82. 



f The material is doubtless deer-born. 



i Keller : Lake Dwellings ; Vol. I, p. 38; Vol. II, Plate V, Fig. 14. 



§ Ibid. ; Vol. I, p. 39; Vol. II, Plate XXII, Fig. 5. 



II Amtliche Berichte; p. 128, Figs. 80 and 81. 



