282 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
This hook would not hold the fish unless it were “ gorged,” but the vora- 
cious burbot always swallows its prey. In dressing these fish for the 
table, whitefish of considerable size were frequently found in them. 
The line is of whalebone like those already described but a little stouter, 
78 inches long,and made of seven pieces,all black. The end of the line 
is fastened into an eye in the small end of a rough club-shaped sinker of 
walrus ivory, 42 inches long. There is another eye at the large end of 
the sinker, for the attachment of a leader of double sinew braid 53 inches 
long connecting the hook with the sinker. 
The reel, which serves also as a short rod, is of yellow pine 194 inches 
long. When the line is reeled up, the hook is caught into the wood on 
one side of the reel. No. 89545 [946] is a similar set of baited tackle, 
bought from the same natives, differing from the preceding only in pro- 
portions, having a longer line—9 feet and 6 inches—and a somewhat 
larger bait. We also procured two sets of burbot tackle unbaited. 
One of these (No. 56543 [53] from Utkiavwin) has a whale- 
bone line 14 feet long, and a roughly octahedral sinker of 
walrus ivory 3 inches long and 14 in diameter. The hook, 
which is joined to the sinker as before by a leader of stout 
sinew braid, is of the second pattern, with serrated edges, 
and a copper hook. The leader is neatly spliced into this. 
The other, No. 56544[187], also from Utkiavwin, has no sinker 
and a hook with a elub-shaped body and iron spur. It was 
probably put together for sale, as it is new. The sinkers, of 
which we collected five, besides those already mentioned, are 
always about the same weight and either club-shaped or 
roughly octahedral. They are always of walrus ivory and 
usually carelessly made. Fig. 275 (No. 56577 [260]) repre- 
sents one of these sinkers (kibica), on which there is some 
Fie. 273.— attempt at ornamentation. On the larger are two eyes 
Ivory sinker. and the outline-of a mouth like a shark’s, incised and filled 
in with black refuse oil. 
A similar line and reel are used for catching polar cod in 
the spring and late winter through the ice at some distance 
from the shore. These linestare 10 or 15 fathoms long, and 
provided with a heavy sinker of ivory, copper, or rarely 
lead, to which are attached by whalebone leaders of unequal 
length, two little jiggers like Fig. 274 (the property of the 
writer, from Utkiavwin). This is of white walrus ivory, 2 
inches long and 2 in diameter at the largest part. The 
two slender hooks are of copper and are secured by 
wedges of whalebone. This makes a contrivance re- 
sembling the squid jigs used by our fishermen. These 
jiggers are sometimes made wholly of copper, which is 
scraped bright. Fie. 274,— 
ao : : : Ivory jigger for 
his fishery begins with the return of the sun, about the Saintes os 
