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Halibut-hooks (5) — Continued. 



curved, others plain ; gangings, made from the long fibrous 

 roots of the spruce or of twisted grass (H), are rove through or 

 bent on to the middle of stocks. Length, from 9£ to 12 inches ; 

 spread, from 4£ to 6 inches. Northwest coast of America, 1875, 

 20,649; 20,650; 20,652; 20,656; 20,657. Collected by James G. 

 Swan. 



Halibut-hook. 



Straight, wooden stock ; straight, bone shank, lashed to lower end 

 at an angle of about 45 degrees ; no barb ; line of twisted bark. 

 Length : Stock, 6£ inches ; shank, 4 inches. Bella Bella, Brit- 

 ish Columbia, 1876. 20,651. Collected by James G. Swan. 



BUTT-END OF HEMLOCK LIMB. 



Prepared for steaming and making a halibut-hook. Makah Indians. 

 Length, 12£ inches. Puget Sound, Washington Territory, 

 1873. 1,141. Collected by James G. Swan. 



Cod-hook. 



Leaders and snells, whalebone (baleen); hooks, ivory, straight and 

 barbless, seized with bark strips. Length, 23 inches. Makah 

 Indians, Neah Bay, Washington Territory, 1883. 72,651. James 

 G. Swan. Used for catching the green rock cod, or cultus 

 cod (Ophiodon elongatus), the "Toosh kow" of the Makah In- 

 dians. 



Codfish hooks (4). 



Long whalebone stock, to the lower end of which is fastened a bone 

 shank by serving of bark ; no barb ; the upper end is bent 

 into an eye, through which the line is fastened. Used by Es- 

 kimo. Length, 12£ to 13£ inches. Northwest Coast of 

 America. 243. 



Codfish hook. 



Wood ; straight stock and shank, lashed together with thin strips 

 of rattan ; no barb ; to the upper end of stock is lashed a 

 small stone sinker. Made by Makah Indians. Length of 

 stock, 11 inches ; shank, 5 inches. Neah Bay, Washington 

 Ter., 1874. 14,280. James G. Swan. 



MODERN HOOKS, PLAIN. 

 Single hooks. 



Hook manufacture. 



The ten processes through which American hand-made fish-hooks 

 pass from the wire to the finished hook. Made entirely by 

 hand-labor in the factory of J. W. Court, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 25,682. Bradford & Anthony, Boston, Mass. 



