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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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Dip-net. Triangular in shape, with frame of forked branches of treewith two cross pieces. The details of the netting are shown in Fig.1635. Cat. No. 89209, U. S. N. M. Haida Indians, Queen CharlotteIslands, British Columbia. Collected by James G. Swan. Fig. 164. Dip-net. Of cedar-bark fiber; oval frame. Used to catch echini. QueenCharlotte Islands, British Columbia. Collected by James G. Swan. Fig. 165 (a, 5, and c). Paddles of the Haida and Tlingit; painted in totemic de-sign. Fig. 165& represents the type of steering-paddle, while a and care the ordinary type. Fig. 166. Paddle. General type of Puget Sound and South Coast Indian paddle. Fig. 167. Paddle. New Zealand. Painted in a design similar to the totemic orna-mentation of this region. Fig. 168. Basket Weaving. (From Plate XIV, Fig. 25l\ Smithsonian Report. 1884.Aboriginal basket-making. Prof. O. T. Mason). Makah Indians,Neah Bay, Washington. Collected by James G. Swan. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate XXXII.
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Drag and Dip Nets; Paddles; Details of Netting and Basket Weaving. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 293 been much influenced by the Kenai and Aleut, who use sinew, blad-ders, and intestines of animals, in the manufacture of their fishing im-plements. Dixon (1787) speaking of the Yakutat halibut fishing says: They bait tlieir hooks with a kind of fish * * * or squid, * » * ^mjhaving sunk it to the bottom they fix a bladder to the end of the line as a buoy, andshould that not watch sufficiently they add another. Their lines are very strong, be-ing made of intestines of animals. One man is sufficient to look after five or sis ofthese buoys; when he perceives a fish bite he is in no great hurry to haul up his line,but gives him time to be well hooked, and when he has hauled the fish up to the sur-face of the water he knocks him on the head with a short club provided for that pur-pose, and afterwards stows his prize away at his leisure. This is done to preventthe halibut (which sometim

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