MURDOCH.] 



NETS. 



285 



Fig. 270 (unit of web) is a net (No. 56752 [171] from the, same village) 

 of the same mesh and depth, but 284 meshes 

 (00 feet) long and made of twisted sinew 

 twine. 



1 had no opportunity of seeing the method of 

 setting these nets under the ice, but it is proba 

 bly the same as that used in setting the seal nets. 

 When in camp at IVruyu in the summer, the FIG. 276.-Me.h of sinew n&amp;lt;*. 

 natives set these nets in the shoal water of Elson Bay, at right angles 

 to the beach, with a stake at each end of the net. They are set by a 

 man in a kayak, ami in them are gilled considerable numbers of white- 

 fish, two species of salmon (Oncorhynchns gorbuscha and O. nerka) 

 and an occasional trout (Salvelinus malma). They take these nets east 

 with them on their-snmmer expeditions, but we did not learn the method 

 of using them at this season. Perhaps they are sometimes used for 

 seining on the beach, as Thomas Simpson says that the Eskimo at 

 Herschel Island (probably Kfifimiid liii) sold his party &quot;some fine sal 

 mon trout, taken in a seine of whalebone, which they dragged ashore 

 by means of several slender poles spliced together to a great length.&quot; 1 



An Utkiavwifi native told 

 us that he found trout (Sal 

 velinus malma) so plentiful 

 at or near the mouth of the 

 Colville, in 1882, that he fed 

 his dogs with them. 



Fig. 277 is a peculiar net 

 or fish-trap (No. 5&amp;lt;i7r&amp;gt;5 [100]) 

 from I tkiavwin, the only 

 specimen of the kind seen. 

 It is a conical, wide-mouthed 

 bag, 8 feet 4 inches long and 

 T&amp;gt;i feet wide at the mouth, 

 netted all in one piece of 

 twisted sinew, with a 2^-inch 

 mesh. This was brought 

 over for sale at an early date, 

 before we were well ac 

 quainted with the natives, 

 and we only learned that it 

 was set permanently for 

 catching fish. Unfortunate 

 ly, we never saw another 

 specimen, and through the 

 press of other duties never 

 happened to make further 



FIG. 277. Fish trap. 



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