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G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



mentioned by BlRO [1901, PI. IV], as being used in Astrolabe Bay; the two laths are longer 

 and kept asunder by a cross lath, in order to be handled by one woman. 



I never heard of any fishing with hook and line on Lake Sentâni. The men understood 

 the use of tinned hooks, which I had with me as barter, and to which they gave the name 

 of chamba ; they were however not very eager to hâve them, presumably, because fishing 

 with hooks, if it is done there at ail, is no occupation of theirs. 



The collection still contains (N°. 593) a fishing basket, which DE CLERCQ and 

 SCHMELTZ [1893, 102, N°. 496, PL XXVI, fig. 4] describe from Wiak, found by the expédition at 



Fig. 108. Mûris Bay; stagings for the fishery built in the sea. 



Kwatisoré; see also EDGE Partington [1895, PI. 175, N°. 3]. It has the same shape as the 

 object mentioned from Ceram by KRAUSE [1904, 259]. On shallow banks it is suddenly put 

 over the small fish and then gradually drawn together and twisted, so as to confine the fish 

 in it. So it is a variation of the circulai - cast net, used in the Malay Archipelago, also thrown 

 out wide and afterwards twisted. The person on the right of fig. 109 is going to close 

 this open apparatus with the booty inside, while the two girls standing by, one of them 

 carrying a bundle of small fish, show the apparatus in the compressed state. The boy standing 

 next to them has a fishing arrow, which he has evidently used as a throwing spear. 



N°. 594 (PI. XX, fig. 6) is a rattle to decoy sharks. It was gathered at Wâri on 

 Wiak and is nearly of the same shape as the spécimens found (De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ 

 [1893, 104, N°. 508, PI. XXVI, fig. 7]) at the village of Wadiwû on the same island and those 

 from British N. G. (FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 169], HADDON [1894,237]) and from the Bismarck Archi- 

 pelago (FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 26]). According to information from the natives of Wâri, the 

 decoyed sharks are caught with spears, fastened to lines veered to the necessary length. East 

 of Cape d'Urville shark fishing is of great importance, which explains the fréquent represen- 



