FISH-HOOKS. 



49 



The original of Fig. 49, which is copied from Keller's "Lake Dwellings,"* 

 has been regarded as a double fish-hook. This specimen, made of deer-horn, 

 was found at the station of Saint- Aubin. I will not attempt to decide whether 

 it served as a fishing-implement or for some other purpose. 



FIB. 47. Wangeii. Fio. 48. Wangi-n. Fio. 49. SainUAubin. 



FIGS. 47-49. Bone aiid deer-horn fish-hooks. 



None of the hooks here represented are barbed, though the perforations 

 in Figs. 46, 47, and 48 leave projections which partake to some extent of the 

 character of barbs. 



The lake-men unquestionably used stone sinkers for deep-water fishing 

 with hook and line; but as it is in many cases impossible to draw a line of 

 demarcation between line and net-weights, I shall subsequently refer to them 

 when treating of the objects characterized as sinkers. 



Small pieces of bark of oval or rectangular, and sometimes of rather 

 irregular, outline, pierced with one hole, or with two, which have been called 

 floats for nets, are not unfrcquent in some of the lacustrine relic-beds. The 

 objects of this class figured in Keller's " Lake Dwellings " apppear to be too 

 small to have been used for floating nets, and the same holds good for the 

 specimens in the collection of the United States National Museum as well as in 

 iny own, which latter were obtained at Robenhausen, and sent to me by Mr. 

 Messikommer, many years ago, among a series of relics from that locality. 

 Larger ones, however, suitable for buoying nets, are in the collection of the 

 Pcabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, at Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, and one of them will be described by me hereafter. I am of 

 opinion that the smaller objects of the class here considered were employed as 

 floats for fishing-lines, taking the place of the cork floats used in our days. 

 Figs. 50 and 51 represent specimens in my collection. The original of Fig. 50 



* Vol. II, Plate XLIII, Fig. 14. 



