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a short line of whalebone, provided with a little &quot;squid&quot; or artificial 

 bait of ivory, and fastened to a wooden rod about 18 inches or 2 feet 

 long. The hire, which is apparently meant to represent a small shrimp, 

 is kept moving, and the fish bite at it. We brought home two com 

 plete sets of tackle for this kind of fishing, two lines without rods and 

 twelve lures or hooks. No. 89548 [IT. W] Fig. 204, has been selected 

 for description. 



The line is 40 inches long; and made of four strips of whalebone 0-1 

 inch wide, fastened together with what appear to be &quot; waterknots.&quot; 

 Two of these strips are of black whalebone, respectively 4 and 9 inches 

 long; the other two are of light colored whalebone and 15A and 11 inches 

 long. The light colored end is made fast to the eye in the small end of 

 the hook as follows: The end is -passed through the eye, doubled back 



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and passed through a single knot in the standing part, and knotted 

 round the latter with a similar knot (Fig. L. 0.~i). This knot is the one 

 generally used in fastening a fishing line to the hook. The other end 

 is doubled in a short bight into which is bucket-hitched one end of a bit 

 of sinew thread about . 5 inches long, and the other end is knotted 

 into a notch at one end of the rod, as the whalebone would be too stiff 

 to tie securely to the stick. The rod is a roughly whittled splinter of 

 California redwood, 14 inches long. The body of the hire is a piece 

 of walrus ivory li inches long. Through a hole in the large end of this 

 is driven the barbless brass hook, with a broad thin plate at one end 

 bent up, flush with the convex side. When not in use the line is reeled 

 lengthwise on the rod, secured by a notch at each end of the latter, anil 

 the hook stuck into the wood on one side of 

 the rod. The hook is wedged into the body 

 of the lure with a bit of whalebone. The 

 other specimen, No. 89547, [17. i. 3] from the 

 same village, is almost exactly like this, but Fl&amp;lt;; 2( 

 has a slightly shorter line, made of three strips of bone, of which the 

 lower two, as before, are of light colored whalebone. The object of 

 using this material is probably to render the part of the, line which is 

 under water less conspicuous, as we use leaders and casting lines of 

 transparent silkworm gut. The body of the lure is made of old brown 

 walrus ivory. These lures are 1 inch to 1 inches long, and vary little, 

 in the shape of the body which is usually made of walrus ivory, in 

 most cases darkened on the surface by age or charring, so that when 

 carved into shape it is parti-colored, black and white. The body is often 

 ornamented with small colored beads inlaid for eyes and along the back 

 (Fig. 200a, No. 50009 [15.3], from Ttkiavwln). 



The hook is usually of the shape described but is sometimes simply a 

 slightly recurved spur about -inch long as in Fig. 20G& (No. 50010 [100], 



