lALMON FISHINM 



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(luqartaun is puslied into the gills and brought out again at tiie 

 mouth: tlius the fish remains sticking until it is dead. Sometimes 

 it is kilh'd liy pushing the ivory point of the instrument into its. 

 neck. When dead it is pushed on the thong. 



At some places wears are built, above which the fish are caugiit. 

 These consist of dikes of stones about one and a half or two feet high, 

 which are piled across a creek some distance below higli water mark. 

 The salmon cross the wall at high water, but are cut off from the 

 sea at half tide and are speared while there. In other places the 

 forks of rivers are shut off by dikes, above which the salmon gather. 



In autumn salmon are caught when ascending the rivers. Some- 

 times they linger too long in small jjonds and, as the rivers quickly 

 dry up at this season, ai-e prevented from getting out of the pools. 

 Tlriv tlicy arc caught until late in tin- scasnu. Some of these ponds 

 fivrzr 1(1 tlic li.itt.im in winter, and tlir nativi^s. when visiting them 

 in the spring, ciif lioles in the ice and take out the frozen fish. 



Washington. 10142.) } 



Fio. 45". Salmon hook. (Museum fur Vi 

 kunde, Berlin. (JWr.) i 



In the early jjart of the spring salmon are caught with hooks 

 (kakliokia, Iglulik; niksiartaung, Oqo), holes being cut through the 

 ice of the lake. Formerly the hooks were made of deer antlers. 

 Another device consists of a nail, crooked and pointed at one end. 

 the other being let into a piece of ivory or bone (Fig. 450). A third 

 one is represented in Fig. 4.^)7. 



The fishing line is made of jilaited deer sincAvs and is either lield in 

 the hand or tied to a, short rod. Along with these hooks baits are 

 used similar totiiose mentioned in the foregoing description. If the 



