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two short sinew cords, on eacli of which is strung a blue bead and an 

 orange-colored piece from the bill of an auklet. These various orna- 

 ments are intended as lures for the fish. Another of these sculpiu 

 hooks from Cape Nome is shown in figure 22, plate LXix. It is 

 attached by a leader to a small ivory sinker, which is yellow on one 

 side and blackened on the other; on the dark side are inserted two 

 white ivory eyes with a dark colored wooden plug in the center of each 

 to represent the pupil. On the other side is a hole for attaching the 

 leader; small bits of red flannel are fastened to this end for lures. The 

 other end terminates in a flattened point, in which is a hole for the line. 

 Strung on the leader is a blue bead and an orange-yellow piece from 

 the bill of an auklet. The shank, which has near the end two holes 

 for the line, is made from deerhorn and flattened, becoming larger 

 toward the lower end, where an oblong piece of ivory is inserted just 

 back of the point of the hook, which is a single, sharp-pointed iron 

 barb inserted through the lower end of the shank and bent upward in 

 front. At each of the lower corners of the shank is a short sinew 

 cord, on which are strung a blue and a white bead and an orange 

 ■ sheath from the bill of an auklet. 



Another sculpiu hook from the same locality is rei)resented in figure 

 8, plate LXIX. It is made from a stout piece of iron, the ends bent 

 together and the points sharpened and upturned. It is attached to a 

 sinker of gneiss, which is elongated-oval in shape and fastened to the 

 line by a lashing of whalebone, which passes around it from end to end. 

 A small hook from Sledge island (figure 20, plate LXix) is made from 

 two pieces of ivory joined by a small connecting rod, on which is 

 strung a flat blue bead. It is shaped to represent a fish. At the lower 

 end are two small, dark-colored wooden pegs set in to represent eyes. 

 A short copper hook projects on the inside. Another sculpiu hook, 

 from Cape Nome (number 45281), is made in three pieces. The lower 

 part is of dark chocolate-colored stone, the middle of reddish granite, 

 and the upper part of ivory. They are lashed together in the usual 

 rjanner. 



For catching salmon trout and the large-fin grayling, small, orna- 

 mented hooks are made of stone and ivory. These hooks are similar 

 in character to those used for catching smelts and sculpiu along the 

 shore of Norton sound and the coast of Bering strait. One of these 

 grayling hooks from Cape Nome is shown in figure 12, plate lxix. It 

 is made from two pieces of stone, the upper of which is chocolate- 

 color and the lower reddish white. They are neatly joined together 

 and held in position by a sinew lashing, which passes through a hole in 

 one piece and around a groove along the middle line of the other. A 

 small iron pin is passed through the lower part of the shank and curves 

 upward in front to form the hook. Attached to the upper and lower 

 ends of the shank are orange-yellow sheaths from the beak of an 

 auklet, the lower end having also a blue bead. 



Figure 21, plate lxix, represents two hooks from the Diomede 



