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hand is similar to that represented so frequently in this region on masks 
and in paintings of mythological beings. Figure 7, plate LXxx, illus- 
trates a stone sinker for a net, obtained at Point Hope, consisting of a 
roughly triangular pebble with 
alashing of rawhide terminating 
in a loop for attaching it to the 
net. It is not grooved, advant- 
age being taken of the natural 
shape to secure the lashings. 
Another example (figure 6, plate 
Lxx), from the Diomede islands, 
is a rounded bowlder, with 
two pecked grooves extending 
around it in opposite directions, 
around which is a stout sealskin 
cord. The lashings on both this 
and the preceding sinker are per- 
manent, and the attachment to 
the net is made by a separate 
cord. 
Ivory or bone weights fre- 
quently alternate with stone 
sinkers on the nets, and serve 
both as sinkers and handles. 
They vary from five to six or 
seven inches in length, are more 
or less curved, and have a hole 
at each end for fastening them 
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Fia. 53—Herring seine, with stretcher at one end and 
with float and sinker (4). 
to the net. A small bone handle of this kind (number 36395), with 
the raven totem mark on its inner surface, was obtained at Kushunuk. 
A set of four such handles from the lower Yukon are shown in figure 11, 
I\f 
(AK) 
Fi. 54—Sealskin-cord herring seine with stone sinker (2). 
plate Lxx. Another 
set of four handles, 
from Cape Vancou- 
ver, illustrated in fig- 
ure 3, plate LXX, are 
slender, curved, bone 
rods, with a hole at 
each end. The sub- 
oval weight of walrus 
ivory shown in figure 
5, plate LXx, was ob- 
tained on St Law- 
rence island. 
Directly after the freezing of the Yukon in the fall there is an annual 
run of lamprey, which pass up the river, just below the ice, in great 
