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minating at the center of the bow. The sinew is slightly twisted 
and dried before it is placed on the bow. 
The glue used to fix the backing is obtained by boiling the 
gland of the lower jaw and the nose of the sturgeon. This is 
dried in balls and preserved for use, and is prepared by simply 
dipping it in warm water and rubbing it on the wood. 
The arrow shafts are usually made from the wood of the wild 
currant, and are worked to shape with a knife and tried by the 
eye. After roughing they are allowed to season and are then 
finished, Any curves are taken out with a straightener, made of 
a piece of hard wood, spindle-shaped and perforated in the. mid- 
e. The arrow-heads used in war and for big game are usually 
CALIFORNIAN AND PoLyNestAN Fisu-Hooks.—In his work on 
Prehistoric fishing in Europe and North America, Dr. Rau has 
awn attention to the similarity of South,Californian and Polyne- 
Sian fish-hooks of shell and bone, and he has figured a few from 
uth Sea islands for the sake of comparison. In consequence 
thereof he received, unasked, a short time ago, from the ethno- 
logical department of the British Museum a communication to- 
gether with a large plate of drawings of Polynesian fish-hooks 
Preserved in the museum. Some of these are strikingly alike the 
Californian specimens; not only does the curved points in these 
hooks approach very closely the shank, but they also show, like 
the California hooks, a barb on the outside. This analogy is the 
more significant, as some ethnologists, Dr. Charles Pickering 
mong them, have claimed a relationship between the Polynesians 
and South Californians. 
