EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXII 



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Drag and Dip Nets; Paddles; Details of Netting and Basket Weaving. 



Fig. 163. Drag-net or Seine. Woven from twisted thread of cedar-bark fiber, 

 Avith roping of same materiaL The details of the knots are shown in 

 Fig. 162a. The wooden float d is on the end of the drag-line. The 

 wooden floats on the head of the net are flat pieces of wood spaced 

 about 3 feet apart. The sinkers at the foot are black pebbles or stones 

 lashed in a circular wooden hooj) and spaced from 8 to 10 inches apart. 

 Length of net, 52 feet; depth. 64 inches. Cat. No. 89203, U. S. N. M. 

 Haida Indians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Collected 

 by James G. Swan. 



Fig. 163. Dip-net. Triangular in shape, with frame of forked branches of tree 

 with two cross pieces. The details of the netting are shown in Fig. 

 1635. Cat. No. 89209, U. S. N. M. Haida Indians, Queen Charlotte 

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



Fig. 164. Dip-net. Of cedar-bark fiber; oval frame. Used to catch echini. Queen 

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



Fig. 165 (a, 5, and c). Paddles of the Haida and Tlingit; painted in totemic de- 

 sign. Fig. 165& represents the type of steering-paddle, while a and c 

 are the ordinary type. 



Fig. 166. Paddle. General type of Puget Sound and South Coast Indian paddle. 



Fig. 167. Paddle. New Zealand. Painted in a design similar to the totemic orna- 

 mentation of this region. 



Fig. 168. Basket Weaving. (From Plate XIV, Fig. 25l\ Smithsonian Report. 1884. 

 Aboriginal basket-making. Prof. O. T. Mason). Makah Indians, 

 Neah Bay, Washington. Collected by James G. Swan. 



