122 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Swivels. 



25942. Halibut-gange. Showing mode of fastening on the hook. A. R. 



Grittenden. 



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

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

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



Amasa Taylor, Provincetowu, 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. 



Clearing-rings. 

 Disgorgers. 



29435. Trawl-sheave bushing. Samuel Elwell, jr., Gloucester, Mass. 

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



V. NETS. 



ENTANGLING-NETS. 



jHeshing-nets (entangling in meshes). 



J Barrier-nets. 

 Rabbit-nets, used by Indians of the Southwest. 



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



Pi-Ute 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. Largo rabbit-net. " 



14430-31. Large rabbit-net. " " 



14401-2-3. Large bunt net (for rabbits). " " 



19049. Rabbit-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 (Lepus sylvaticm var. artemisice), and the mule 

 or jackass hare (Lcpus callotis). 



Bird mesh-nets. 



Gill-net. 



Gill-nets used in Great Lakes. 



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



length, of inch to the foot. J. W. Miluer. 



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- 



