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Fig. 276 (unit of web) is a net (No. 56752 [171] from the same village) 
of the same mesh and depth, but 284 meshes 4 
(60 feet) long and made of twisted sinew 2 
twine. 
I had no opportunity of seeing the method of 
setting these nets under the ice, but it is proba- 
bly the same as that used in setting the seal nets. 
When in camp at Pernytt in the summer, the 
natives set these nets in the shoal water of Elson Bay, at right angles 
to the beach, with a stake at each end of the net. They are set by a 
man in a kayak, and in them are gilled considerable numbers of white- 
fish, two species of salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha and O, nerka) 
and an occasional trout (Salvelinus malma). They take these nets east 
with them on their summer expeditions, but we did not learn the method 
of using them at this season. Perhaps they are sometimes used for 
seining on the beach, as Thomas Simpson says that the Eskimo at 
Herschel Island (probably Kiimiad/lin) sold his party ‘‘some fine sal- 
mon trout, taken in a seine of whalebone, which they dragged ashore 
by means of several slender poles spliced together to a great length.”! 
An Utkiavwin native told 
us that he found trout (Sal- 
velinus malma) so plentiful 
at or near the mouth of the 
Colville, in 1882, that he fed 
his dogs with them. 
Fig. 277 is a peculiar net 
or fish-trap (No, 56755 {190]) 
from Utkiavwin, the only 
specimen of the kind seen. 
It is a conical, wide-nouthed 
bag, 5 feet 4 inches long and 
54 feet wide at the mouth, 
netted all in one piece of 
twisted sinew, with a 24-inch 
mesh. This was brought 
over for sale at an early date, 
before we were well ac- 
quainted with the natives, 
and we only learned that it 
was set permanently for 
catching fish. Unfortunate- 
ly, we never saw another 
specimen, and through the 
press of other duties never 
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1G. 276.—Mesh of sinew net. 
: EES EI RUSE NE happened to make further 
1 Narrative, p. 115 
