TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



A.— APPARATUS OF DIRECT APPLICATION. 

 I.— Hand Implements. 



* FOR STRIKING. 



Page. 



1. Unarmed clubs 9 



Seal clubs - 9 



Fish clubs 9 



Drawings illustrative of fisheries in which clubs are employed 10 



** FOR CUTTING. 



2. Knives ---- 10 



Aboriginal knives 10 



Sheath knives 12 



Modern fish-knives 13 



Rimming knives or plows 19 



Scrapers and inshaves 20 



Net-mender's knives 21 



3. Axes and cutting spades 21 



Axes proper - 21 



Spades 21 



Clam and bait choppers 23 



*** FOR THRUSTING. 



4. Thrusting-spears and prods 23 



Lances 23 



Prodding instruments 26 



II. — Implements for Seizure of Objects. 



5. Scoops 



Shovels 27 



Dip-nets - 27 



Dredges 30 



Smooth dredges 30 



Toothed dredges and rakes 32 



* The classification here adopted is, with a few unimportant exceptions, that de- 

 vised by Prof. G. Brown Goode, and employed by him in his catalogue of the 

 Government exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876 of appara- 

 tus for the capture of animals ; and in his catalogue of the fishery apparatus exhibited 

 bv the United States at the Berlin Fisheries Exhibition in 1880. 



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