188 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH. ANN. 18 
- along the lower border are lashed pieces of deerhorn four to five inches 
in length, which serve as weights and also as handles by which the 
net can be hauled to the shore. <A seine of twisted sinew cord similar 
to the preceding, obtained at Hotham inlet (number 63612), is about 
thirty inches in width, with a stretcher of wood at each end. It has 
oval wooden floats and deerhorn and stone sinkers. 
A small-mesh seine of sinew cord, used for herring and whitefish, 
obtained at Cape Prince of Wales, is shown in figure 53. It is nearly 
thirty inches wide, and has 
wooden stretchers at each 
end, a series of rounded, 
tapering floats along the up- 
per edge, and handle-like 
sinkers of ivory along the 
lower border. Another 
small-mesh herring seine, 
about five feet wide, obtained 
at St Michael (figure 54), is 
made from fine sealskin cord. 
Along the bottom is strung a 
series of smalloval stone sink- 
ers, notched above and below 
to secure the lashings. 
Floats for nets are some- 
times carved in the shape of 
birdsandinotherforms. Fig- 
ure 15, plate LXx, represents 
a float rudely fashioned in the 
form of a grebe; another, from 
the lower Yukon (plate Lxx, 
8), represents the head of 
aman and the flattened tail 
of a bird. A float from St 
Lawrence island (figure 55) 
is round in cross section, 
or large in the middle, and 
Fia. 52—Mesh, float, and sinker of herring seine (4). tapers gradually to both 
ends, where there are slight 
shoulders to retain the cords by which it is made fast. Others are 
merely rounded blocks of wood, pierced for attachment to the net. 
In addition to the wooden floats, others are made from the inflated 
bladders or stomachs of various animals. Figure 9, plate LXx, illus- 
trates a set of three such floats and a wooden marker-float for use on 
one end of the net. The latter is a thin, curved piece of wood in the 
form of a thumbless hand, with a round, excavated depression in the 
center, which, with the inside of the finger tips, is-painted black. This 
