FISH-HOOKS. 



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had obtained it from Eskimos near Chesterfield Inlet, in the northern part of 

 Hudson's Bay. This hook, which shows a peculiar contrivance for fastening the 

 line, namely, a cavity sunk from the top of the shank met by a lateral one, seems 

 to consist of reindeer-horn. 



Fig. 200.— Eskimos, Greenland. (45903). Fio. 201.— Eskimos, Chesterfield Inlet. (72009). 



Figs. 200 and 201. — Fish-hooks of bone and reindeer-horn. 



There are modern bone fish-hooks from tribes of the Northwest Coast and 

 other northern regions of America in the Ethnological Department of the United 

 States National Museum. These, however, are composed of different parts, and 

 the originals of Figs. 200 and 201 are the only specimens consisting of a single 

 piece. 



I now pass over to Californian fish-hooks made of shell. 



Fio. 202. 



Figs. 202 and 203.— Shell fish-hooks. Santa Cruz Island. (26252). 



