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shown in figure 16, plate Lxx. The hoop at the top is a round willow 
stick, with the beveled ends overlapping and bound together. The 
handle extends across the hoop and projects four and one-half inches 
on one side. The net is shallow, made 
of twisted sinew cord, and is joined to 
the hoop by a spiral wrapping of spruce 
root, which passes around the frame and 
through the bordering meshes. 
The accompanying figure 50 shows the 
mesh of alarger dip-netfrom Sabotnisky. 
This netis about thirty inches in diame- 
ter, is made of twisted sinew cord, and 
is used for catching various kinds of 
smallfish, A small, strongly made dip- 
net of willow bark, obtained by Lieuten- 
ant Stoney from the region back of 
Kotzebue sound, is shown in figure 10, 
plate Lxx. It is only about fifteen inches in diameter; the meshes are 
of diamond shape around the border and quadrate on the bottom. 
The mesh of a large dip-net used for catching salmon and whitefish 
(figure 51) was obtained from Sabotnisky. It is about six feet in 
length and the same in diameter, and is made of willow bark. The 
hoop is of spruce wood, with a 
Jong, slender handle of the same 
material, which crosses the hoop. 
Figure 12, plate LXxx, represents 
a dip-net from Plover bay, Sibe- 
ria, made of whalebone, which is 
used for catching small fish in the 
lakes and streams of that vicinity. 
The mouth of the net is held 
open by a stout rim of whalebone. 
Four strands of the same material 
are attached at intervals around 
the rim and fastened together 
about sixteen inches aboveit. A 
heavy granite bowlder, grooved 
to receive the lashing, is fastened 
to a whalebone ring in the bottom 
of the net, which is used by being 
thrown out into the water and 
then hauled to the shore by a cord. 
A herring seine of sinew cord, 
from St Michael (figure 52), has a number of rounded, subtriangular 
wooden floats pierced at their small end for attachment to a sealskin 
cord which runs along the upper edge of the net; to a cord stretched 
Fie,50—Mesh of dip-net made of sinew 
(about 4). 
Fic. 51—Mesh of dip-net made of willow bark (§). 
