MURDOCH.] FISHING-TACKLE. 281 
When at the rivers in the autumn and early spring, they fish for burbot 
with a line earrying a peculiar large hook called iekqlin, which is baited 
with a piece of whitefish. There are two forms of this hook, 
which is from 3 to 54 inches long. One form differs in size only 
from the small ni/ksin, but is always of white ivory and not 
beaded (Fig. 269, No. 89550 [780] from Utkiaywin, which is 44 
inches long and has a copper hook). The hook is of copper, 
brass or iron. The other form, which is perhaps the commoner, 
has a narrow flat body, slightly bent, and serrated on the edges 
to give a firm attachment to the bait. This body is usually of 
antler, and has a copper or iron hook either spur- 
shaped or of the common form as in Fig. 270, No. Fie. 270.— 
89553 [764] from Utkiavwin, which has a body of un" 
walrus ivory 4 inches long and a copper hook. Of 24 pattern. 
late years, small cod hooks obtained from the ships have 
been adapted to these bodies, as is seen in Fig. 271, No, 89552 
[S841] from Utkiavwin. The shank of the hook 
has been half imbedded in a longitudinal groove 
on the flatter side of the body, with the bend of 
the hook projecting about 4 inch beyond the tip 
of the latter. The ring of the hook has been 
bent open and the end sunk into the body. The 
hook is held on by two lashings of sinew, one at 
each end of the shank. 
No, 56594 [52] from Utkiavwin is like the pre- 
ceding, but has a larger hook, which from the 
bend to the point is wrapped in a piece of deer 
skin with the flesh side out, and wound with 
a sinew having a tuft of hair at the point of the 
bot hook, ist hook. This is probably to hide the point when 
DERI the hook is baited. No. 56594 [167] from Utki- 
avwin, has the hook fastened to the back of the body in- 
stead of the flat side. The manner in which these hooks 
are baited is shown in Fig. 272, which represents a complete 710-27'— Burbot 
set of burbot tackle (No. 89546 [946]) brought in and sold by cod hook. 
some Utkiavwin natives, just as they had been using it in the autumn 
of 1882 at Kuaru or Kulugrua. <A piece of whitefish, flesh and skin, 
Fic. 272.—Burbot tackle, baited. 
with the scales removed is wrapped round the hook so as to make a club- 
shaped body 44 inches long and is sewed up along one side with cotton 
twine. The copper spur projects through the skin on the other side. 
