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Line — Continued. 



double. Is attached to seal spear. Length, 80 feet. Bristol 

 Bay, Alaska, 1882. 72,490. Collected by William J. Fisher. 

 Nushagagmut Eskimo, Nushagak Biver. 



SINKERS. 



HAND-LINE SINKERS. 



Lead sinkers. 



For hand-lines used in pond and sea fisheries ; cod-line sinker, style 

 of 1840, with soapstone mold. Patent adjustable. For pond 

 fishing. 39,428 (a). 39,428 (b). 39,428 (c). 39,428 (d). 

 For tautog fishing. 57,564. Southern New England pattern. 

 25,607. Bhode Island pattern, for cod and tautog. 25,605. 



Tautog double sinkers. — Bhode Island pattern. 54,511. 

 Lead sinker, with spring stock. — For bluefish line. 54,336. 



Mold and sinker for cod-line. 



(Pattern of 1840.) Soapstone mold in two parts; globe-shape in- 

 side ; sinker with iron stock. Gloucester, Mass. 54,510, U. 

 S. Fish Commission. Style of sinker used on shore cod hand- 

 lines at Cape Ann in 1840. 



Hand-line sinker. 



Lotkrop's improved pattern for George's hand-lines. Made of lead, 

 with brass bumper on the foot. Weight, 9 pounds. Glouces- 

 ter, Mass., 1880. 54,489. TJ. S. Fish Commission. 



Sinker for cod hand-line. Cape Ann pattern. 57,556. 



Cod-line sinkers. Cape Cod patterns. 25,716. 



Sinkers. 



Samples of " The connecting sinker or fish-hook holder." A con- 

 trivance "that can be used for the double purpose of con- 

 necting or disconnecting, in a twinkling, the hook, catgut, or 

 snell with the line, and also serving as a sinker at the same 

 time, thereby having the great advantage of avoiding the 

 trouble and annoyance of tying and untying the string on and 

 off the hook, &c." Prices for 1883 : No. 1 (smallest size), $3.50 

 per dozen; No. 2 (middle size), $4 per dozen; No. 3 (largest 

 size), $4.50 per dozen. Exhibited by Van Altena & Scheltus, 

 Milwaukee, Wis. 



Stone sinker for halibut-line. 



Used by Makah Indians. Length, 10 inches. Port Townsend, 

 Washington Territory, 1883. 72,659. James G. Swan. 



