EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXI 



Fish-hooks from the Northwest Coast. 



Fig. 152. Halibut Hook. Of iron, modeled after wooden type. Lashing designed 

 to secure the bait around the point; the lines or snoods of cedar-bark 

 twine, spruce root, kelp, sinew, or hide served with bark or spruce-root 

 fiber. Cat. No. 88778. U. S. N. M. Masset Indians. Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, British Columbia. Collected by James G. Swan. 



Fig. 153. Fish-hook. Of yew, with bone barb. Cat. No. 72649, U. S. N. M. 

 Makah Indians, Cape Flattery. Washington. Collected by James G. 

 Swan. 



Fig. 154. Fish-hook. Of yew, with iron barb. Cat. No. 88765, U. S. N. M. Mas- 

 set Indians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Collected by 

 James G. Swan. 



Fig. 155. Fish-hook. Of spruce, representing a sea-gvill. Cat. No. 42976, U. S. N. 

 M. Tlingit Indians, Sitka. Collected by Commander L. A. Beardslee. 



Fig. 156. Fish-hook. Representing a medicine man. Cat. No. 74351. Tlingit In- 

 dians, Sitka. Collected by John J. McLean. 



Fig. 157. Halibut Hook. Similar to 154. Cat. No. 88780, U. S. N. M. Masset In- 

 dians, Queen Charlotte Islands. British Columbia. Collected by James 

 G. Swan. 



Fig. 158. Halibut Hook. In two pieces: barb of iron; snood of sijruce root. Cat. 

 No. 88766, U. S. N. M. Masset Indians, Queen Charlotte Islands, 

 British Columbia. Collected by James G. Swan. 



Fig. 159. Halibut Hook. Iron barb; carved wooden float. Cat. No. 88762, U. S. 

 N. M. Masset Indians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 

 Collected by James G. Swan. 



Fig. 160. Red-fish Hook. The rod a of spruce; the hooks hb of iron; the snoods 

 of buckskin. Cat. No. 89208, U. S. N. M. Skidegate Indians, Queen 

 Charlotte Islands. British Cohimbia. Collected by James G. Swan. 



Fig. 161. Halibut Hook. Largest type. Cat. No. 20656, U. S. N. M. Tsimshian 

 Indians, Fort Simpson, British Columbia. Collected by James G. 

 Swan. 



