FISH-HOOKS. 



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touches a fish-hook (i) was produced. This brief account is an abstract from 

 one of the interesting articles published by Mr. Paul Schumacher.='= 



Allusion was made to the short distance between the point and shank in 

 nearly all Californian hooks, and it was added that on this account their suitable- 

 ness for fishing-purposes had been doubted. It is difficult, if not impossible, 

 to perceive how fish could have been caught with hooks of this form, unless it 

 is assumed that they swallowed both bait and hook. The latter, however, may 

 have served the double purpose of hook and bait. Yet there can hardly be 

 any doubt as to their use, considering that similar fish-hooks (or, perhaps 

 more properly, baits or bait-holders) are still employed by islanders of the 

 Pacific Ocean. In the following figures I represent two fish-hooks obtained 

 during Lieutenant Wilkes's cii'cumnavigation of the globe, and preserved in the 

 National Museum, with the other objects of ethnological interest collected in the 

 course of that voyage. The illustrations can be relied on as perfectly accurate. 



Fig. 213. — Samoau fish-hook of shell with stone siDker. (3399). 



* Schumacher : Die Anfertigung der Angelhaken aus Muschelschalen bei den friiheren Bewohnern der Inseln 

 iin Santa Barbara Canal ; Archiv fiir Anthropologie ; Vol. VIII, 187.5; p. 223, etc. (Also: Bulletin of the United 

 States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories; Vol. Ill, No. 1 ; Washington, 1877; p. 42, etc.;. 



