NELSON] FISHING TACKLE 179 
two short sinew cords, on each of which is strung a blue bead and an 
orange-colored piece from the bill of an auklet. These various orna- 
ments are intended as lures for the fish. Another of these sculpin 
hooks from Cape Nome is shown in figure 22, plate Lx1x. It is 
attached by a leader to a small ivory sinker, which is yellow on one 
side and blackened on the other; on the dark side are inserted two 
white ivory eyes with a dark-colored wooden plug in the center ef each 
to represent the pupil. On the other side is a hole for attaching the 
leader; small bits of red flannel are fastened to this end for lures. The 
other end terminates in a flattened point, in which is a hole for the line. 
Strung on the leader is a blue bead and an orange-yellow piece from 
the bill of an anklet. The shank, which has near the end two holes 
for the line, is made from deerhorn and flattened, becoming larger 
toward the lower end, where an oblong piece of ivory is inserted just 
back of the point of the hook, which is a single, sharp-pointed iron 
barb inserted through the lower end of the shank and bent upward in 
front. At each of the lower corners of the shank is a short sinew 
cord, on which are strung a blue and a white bead and an orange 
sheath from the bill of an auklet. 
Another sculpin hook from the same locality is represented in figure 
8, plate LXrx. Itis made from a stout piece of iron, the ends bent 
together and the points sharpened and upturned. It is attached to a 
sinker of gneiss, which is elongated-oval in shape and fastened to the 
line by a lashing of whalebone, which passes around it from end to end. 
A small hook from Sledge island (figure 20, plate Lx1x) is made from 
two pieces of ivory joined by a small connecting rod, on which is 
strung a flat blue bead. It is shaped to represent a fish. At the lower 
end are two small, dark-colored wooden pegs set in to represent eyes. 
A short copper hook projects on the inside. Another sculpin hook, 
from Cape Nome (number 45281), is made in three pieces. The lower 
part is of dark chocolate-colored stone, the middle of reddish granite, 
and the upper part of ivory. They are lashed together in the usual 
manner, 
For catching salmon trout and the large-fin grayling, small, orna- 
mented hooks are made of stone and ivory. These hooks are similar 
in character to those used for catching smelts and sculpia along the 
shore of Norton sound and the coast of Bering strait. One of these 
grayling hooks from Cape Nome is shown in figure 12, plate Lxrx. It 
is made from two pieces of stone, the upper of which is chocolate- 
color and the lower reddish white. They are neatly joined together 
and held in position by a sinew lashing, which passes through a hole in 
one piece and around a groove along the middle line of the other, A 
‘small iron pin is passed through the lower part of the shank and curves 
upward in front to form the hook. Attached to the upper and lower 
ends of the shank are orange-yellow sheaths from the beak of an 
auklet, the lower end having also a blue bead. 
Figure 21, plate LXIx, represents two hooks from the Diomede 
