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TRANSACIIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTK. 



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which they are secured by means of a plated raw-hide line. The whole 

 ■detachable points of this implement were originally of mountain sheep 

 horn ; but in modern specimens the tip is generally of iron and occasion- 

 ally of copper, the barbs only being of horn. 



Both the Carrier and the Tsi[Koh'tin harpoons are hafted to shafts 

 sometimes as much as 1 2 or 15 feet long, so as to render them serviceable 

 from the top of rocks or precipitous river banks emerging from the 

 rapids where that species of fish is wont to congregate. 



Implements of that size are designed exclusively for salmon fishing. 

 For smaller fish, besides the nets, which will be described in their proper 

 place, the Carriers have recourse to a bone or steel harpoon of analogous 

 model with that of fig. 56, but reduced in dimensions and hafted to a 

 short handle. If in the winter time, bait is used as a means of attracting 

 the fish. Having cut in the ice a hole of sufficient diameter to observe 

 the movements of the trout underneath, the Carrier drops and gently 



oscillates in the water bone imitations of Coregone fry (fig. 58), hanging 

 through a sinew line from a wood or bone piece held in the left hand. Upon 

 biting the bait, the fish is speedily speared with the above mentioned 

 harpoon. 



Here (fig. 59) we have a fishing implement which, though of a rather 

 primitive style, yet requires but little explanation. The lancet or pin-like 

 part of the hook* only is of bone, while the shank is of wood. This 

 implement is drawn natural size. In remote localities, during hunting 

 expeditions away in the woods, it is found to this day very serviceable. 



A fishing device less modern in appearance is shown in fig. 60. It is 

 called by the Carriers tJie-saten a word which cannot be better translated 

 than by "lying on the bottom," though the actual equivalent of that phrase 

 would be the^-dsthan. A very small fish is used as bait and fastened in 



Qds ; prim. root. 



