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^KIMO 



j„,|„iii.-s iil.out ir. FioM, ils si, ;,)..■ it would app.-ar as it it w.-it- meant 

 Id I).- sfl ill a stream willi the iiKnith lowanls tlie ciuTeiit. Tliis ctm- 

 iiivam-.'iscalleil sapoliii. whi.'li cm icsim.ikIs to the Greeiilaiidie saputit, 

 a .lam lor .•atcliiii- (isli. 



From all aecounts, the natives easi of the Anderson River rc.nioii were 

 iiiiioraiil of the use oIIIh' ik'I before they mach- the acquaintance of the 

 whiles.' Ihouuli tliev now usi' it in se\-cral |ihices, as in Greenland and 

 Labrador. Tlieeailicst e\])lorcasoH the northwest coast, however, found 

 holh lish anil si^al mis in use thon-h.as I iiave already ineiitione<l, the 

 .seal ii.'t was spoken of at Point liinrow as a i-omparatively recent in- 

 vention. .\f tlnMin'sent ilav, nets are nsed all alon- the coast 

 from I he Ma.'ken/ie and Anderson ri vrs (see :\larFarlaneV Col- 

 lection i as far south at least as (he Yukon delta.- I Imve not 

 been able |o learn whether -ill nets are used in the delta of the 

 Kuskoquim. l'ctroff= mentions lish trajjs and di}) nets merely. 

 That the natives of Ivadiak formerly had no nets 1 infer from 

 I'etroffs statcnu'iit ' tliat --of late they ha ve lie.^iin to use seines 

 of whale sinew."" Nets are .uciierally nse<roii the Siberian 

 coast. We observeil them oniselves at I'lover l!ay, and Nor- 

 deiiskiold'' describes the nets nsed at I'itlekaj, which are made 

 of sinew thread. It is almost certain that the Ameriean Eskimo 

 learned the use of the net from the Siberians, as they did the 

 habit of sinokin.y. since the use of the gill net a])pears to have 

 been limited to prei-isely the same rei;ioii as the Siberian form 

 .,f tobacco i.ii.e.« 



,S'^„v„x_Theonlyevi^ 

 for eatehinj;- lish in this 

 11-7], Fig. -7S, iron, r 

 carelesslyn,a,le for .sale 

 ing lish. This has a r 

 iiiclii's long, arn,c,l at ( 



^ -, Il,c shaft, which is, ait ill 



abiMit Flinches ha,-. lOachproi 



w leii treenails, ami they are 



sinew through holes in the side]: 

 side prongs are somewhat elastii 



