FISH-HOOKS. 



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for a drawing of the specimen. " It was found," lie states, " some years ago, at 

 the base of a long mound on the edge of Mound Lake, in Cass County, in one of 

 the numerous heaps of camp-rubbish there seen, consisting of mussel-shells, 

 ashes, charcoal, and earth, interspersed with many fragments of pottery, flint 

 chips, and bones of deer, buffalo, wild turkey, raccoon, opossum, etc., the whole 

 covered with sand and silt deposited by the inundations of ages. 



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Fig. 190.— Illinois. 



Fio. 189.— Long Island. Fia. 191.— Ohio (Madisonville). 



Figs. 189-191.— Bone fish-hooks. 



" Mound Lake — like all the other lakes and sloughs of the Sangamon 

 Bottom — is merely a stretch of one of the ancient beds of the Sangamon River, 

 and communicates with it by a short outlet ; and is now, as it probably was cen- 

 turies ago, the habitat of innumerable pike, buffalo, cat, and other species of fine 

 fish. I can find no evidence to sustain the idea that the ancient tribes of this 

 region understood the art of catching fish with nets ; * but this bone hook proves 

 that they practised at least one method of fishing." 



Fig. 191. — This hook presents a i^erfectly fi'esh appearance, being almost 

 white, and is of excellent workmanship and well polished. The upper part of 

 the shank, including that above the well-cut groove, is four-sided. The figure 



* Dr. Snyder found no net-sinkers in that neighborhood. 



