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horn guide from a tomeod rod. Figure 12, plate LXVIII, shows another 
tip for a tomcod rod, from Sledge island. 
Another set of hooks and sinker from Hotham inlet are shown in 
figure 5, plate Lx1x. The sinker is of greenish slate, with a rounded 
ivory tip at the upper end, excavated to admit the pointed end of the 
stone, which is riveted in place.. There are two holes in the middle of 
the stone, at right angles to each other, for the passage of the leaders, 
Only a single pair of leaders are in place, the other set having been 
lost. Figures 14 and 16, plate Lxvu1, illustrate forms of tomcod hooks, 
obtained at Stugunugumut, which are used also for catching smelts. 
When tomcod are abundant along the coast in autumn and spring, 
smelts also are plentiful, and often are caught on the same hooks; but 
in some localities special hooks are made for taking smelts, one of 
which, from Nunivak island, is illustrated in figure 13, plate LXVIII. 
This has a straight ivory shank, largest near its lower end, in which a 
recurved copper hook is set aud held in place by a wooden plug. 
While fishing for tomcod, sculpin of several species are frequently 
caught in shallow water. A number of hooks made especially for taking 
these fish were obtained at Cape Nome. Sculpin hooks from the northern 
shore of Norton sound and from Bering strait are made from pieces of 
stone and ivory, fitted together to form an oval shank (figure 21, plate 
UX1X). The surface of the stone is grooved to receive the ivory, which 
forms the lower end, and is fastened by a lashing. The hook, either of 
iron or copper, passes through the shank and the point is upturned in 
front. The shank is ornamented with little tags of sinew cord at the 
jower corners, to wlich are attached blue beads and the sheaths from 
the bills of auklets. The stone chosen for these hooks varies consid- 
- erably, but is usually of some bright color. Sometimes the lower end 
is made also of stone of another color instead of ivory, as in the speci- 
men from Cape Nome, illustrated in figure 12, plate LXIx, which is used 
also as a grayling hook. 2 
A sculpin hook and sinker of dark-colored stone is represented in 
figure 14, plate Lxrx. It was obtained at Cape Nome. The sinker 
is pierced at the upper end for the attachment of the rawhide line; 
to this upper end is fastened a finely braided sinew cord, having an 
orange-yellow piece from an auklet’s bill at its lower end. The other 
eid of the sinker has a white ivory cap fitted over it and held in place 
by a wooden peg; in the lower end is a hole in which is a small seal- 
skin baud, to which are attached some pieces of skin from the legs of 
birds, and below this extends a leader, terminating in a flat-shank 
hook. The leader is also ornamented with a blue bead and a piece from 
the bill of an auklet. The shank of the hook is composed of three 
pieces, the upper and lower of ivory, and the middle one of stone, 
neatly fitted in grooves in the ivory and fastened by a lashing; a single- 
point, copper barb is inserted through the shank and bent upward 
in front. In the truncated base of the ivory of the shank are two 
holes below the place where the hook is inserted, to which are hung 
