28 INTRODUCTION 
joue un réle considerable et s’associe & toutes les formes de 
Vactivité.”’ ! 
Magic, especially imitative magic, according to Frazer and 
others, plays a great part in the measures taken by the rude 
hunter or fisherman to secure an abundant supply of food. 
On the principle that like pro- 
duces like, many things are done 
by him or for him by his friends 
in deliberate imitation of the result 
sought. 
Confirmatory evidence from 
races, past and present the world 
over, stands ready to call. The 
Point Barrow Eskimos, when 
following the whale, always carry 
a whale-shaped amulet of stone or 
wood. The North African fisher- 
man of the present day, in 
obedience to an ancient Moslem 
work on Magic, fashions a tin 
image of the fish which he de- 
sires, inscribes it with four mystic 
letters, and fastens it to his line. 
If at the due season fish fail 
to appear, the Nootka wizard con- 
structs of wood 2 a fish swimming, 
and launches it in the direction 
AN ALASKAN HOOK WITH A : 
W:ZARD’S HEAD, whence the schools generally arrive. 
From E, Krause’s Vorge- Thissimulacrum, plus incantations, 
schichtliche Fischeretgerate, 
fig, 345. compels the laggards in no time. 
In Cambodia, if a netsman be 
unsuccessful, he strips naked and withdraws a short dis- 
tarice: then strolling up to the net, as if he saw it not, he 
lets himself be caught in the meshes, whereupon he calls 
1 Acad. des Sciences, Paris, séance du 22 juin, 1903. 
2 The pictured hook is of special interest. The head, considered by 
‘Krause that of a wizard, was intended to endow the hook with an extra 
‘power of magic. 
3 F, Boaz, 6th Report on N.W. Tribes of Canada, p. 45. 
