122 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Sirivels. 



25942. Halibut-gange. Showiug mode of iiistcning on the hook. A. E. 



Ci'ittcnden. 

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

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

 29476. Halibut trawl-huoy swivel. Used by the George's Banks fishermen. 



Amasa Taylor, Provincetown, Mass. 

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

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

 25946. Trawl-buoy rope swivel. Central Wharf Company, Provincetown. 



Mass. 



€ learin§^-rmg'§. 



29435. Trawl-sheave bushing. Samuel Elw ell, jr., Gloucester, Mass. 

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



V. NETS. 



Entangling-nets. 

 Rleshin^^-iiets (eutangling in meshes). 



J Barrier-nets. 

 Eabbit-nets, used by Indians of tlie Southwest. 



14405-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21. Small rabbit -nets. 



Pi-Uto Indians, Southern Utah. Maj. J. W. Powell. 

 14500. Small rabbit-net. Pi-Ute Indians, Southern Utah. Maj. J. 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. Eabbit-net. Cooyuwee Pi-Ute Indians, Southern Utah. Stephen 

 Powers. 

 These nets are used largely in the capture of rabbits for food ; they are 

 stretched in long lines by means of slender crotched sticks which support 

 the upper edge. The chaparral is then scoured for miles by the Indians 

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

 the sage-brush, are driven into the meshes of the nets. The species thus 

 captured are the sage-hare {Lepm sulvaticua var. artcmisiw), and the mule 

 or jackass hare {Lepus callotis). 



Bird inesh-uets. 



Gill-net. 



Gill-nets used in Great Lakes. 



25751. Model of Lake Michigan gill-net. Scale: Depth, 1 inch to the foot; 

 length, I of inch to the foot. J. W. Miliier. 

 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- 



