122 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Swivels. 



2oy4'2. Ilalibut-gange. Showing mode of fastening on the hook. A. 11. 



Critteudeu. 

 29457. Shark-hook swivel. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Middlctown, Conn. 

 29395. Primitive trawl-biioy swivels. George B. Foster, Beverly, Mass. 

 29471). Halibut trawl-buoy swivel. Used by the George's Banks lishermeii. 



Amasa Taylor, Provincetown, Mass. 

 29498. Trawl-buoy swivels. Alex. MeCurdy, East Gloucester, Mass. 

 25187. Trawl-buoy rope swivel. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co.,Middletowu,Conn. 

 2.'')94l). Tiawl-biioy rope swivel. Central Wharf Company, I'rovincetown. 



Mass. 



ClrariiiiU-B'iii^x. 

 Ilij-ii^ori^c'rxii. 



294I3.">. Trawl-sheave bushing. Saiiuul Klwcll, jr., (Jloucester, Mass. 

 . Halibut "gob-stick." Philip Merchant, Gloucester, Mass. 



V. NETS. 



Entangling-nets. 

 He««liiii;;-nets (eutangliiig in meslies). 



X Barrier-nets. 

 Eabbit-nots, used by Indians of tlie Southwest. 



14405-C-7-8-9-in-ll-12-i:?-14-15-ir>-17-l>^19-20--:.'l. Small ral>bit - nets. 



Pi-T:te Indians, Soulheru I'tah. Maj» .T. W. Powell. 

 14.")00. Small rabbit-net. Pi-UtcIndians,South.ni rtah. Maj. .T. W. Powell. 

 11245. Small rabbit-net. " 



12058. Small rabbit-net. " " " 



12051,. 53. Large rabbit-net. " " " 



11247. Large rabbit-net. " " " 



14430-31. Large rabbit-net. " " " 



14401-2-3. Large bunt net (for rabbits). " " 



19049. Kabbit-net. Cooyuwec Pi-Ute Indians. Southern Utah. Stephen 

 Powers. 

 Tliese nt"ts are used largely in the capture of rabbits for food: thiy an- 

 stretrhed in long lines by means f)f slender crotched sticks A>hith sup)MUt 

 the upper edge. The chaparral is then scoured for mih-s by the Indians 

 on horseback and on foot, and the rabliits, which are very abundant in 

 the sage-brush, are driven into the nu-shi-s of the nets. The species thus 

 c.ipTuri'd are the sage-hare (Lcpun sylraticun var. artcmiitia), and the nnilo 

 or J.ii-Kass iiare {/.rjiim vdllolin). 



I'.ird iiirsli-iu'ts. 



(.;ill-iicl. 



CfilliU'ls \istH\ ill (ln;it LakfS. 



25751. Modrl of Lake .Michigan gill-net. Scale: Deplli. 1 in. h to the foot: 

 length, i of iiuh to tiii^ foot. J. W. Mihicr. 

 The gill-netting in use on the Great Lakes is knit from linen thread, 

 two and three ply (25-4, 2-cord, and 30-50, 3-cord), from eleven to twenty- 



