NETTING-NEEDLES 



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In order to show the appearance of netting-needles at present used in North 

 America, both by the civilized and uncivilized, I insert here representations of 

 such implements. 



Fia. 82. New England. (25593). 



Fia. 83. Eskimos, Nunivak Island, Alaska. (10171). 



Flo. 84. Eskimos, Chirikoff Island, Alaska. (16KJ6). 



Fia. 85. McCloud River Indians, California. 



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 FIGS. 82-85. Modern netting-implements. 



Fig. 82 illustrates the shape of the ordinary wooden netting-needle still in 

 use among fishermen in New England, although nets are now to a great extent 

 manufactured there by machinery. Fig. 83 represents a netting-implement of 

 bone, derived from the Magemut Eskimos in Nunivak Island, Alaska. A 

 similar wooden implement used by the Eskimos of Chirikoff Island, Alaska, is 

 represented in Fig. 84 ; and in Fig. 85, lastly, I show the form of the simple 

 tool employed for netting by the McCloud River Indians in California. It 

 consists of two slightly curved and pointed sticks, bound together with vegetable 

 fibre. Sometimes they use a stick bifurcated at both ends. 



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