English: No. 1. Pieces of turtle shell tied to a cord, forming a crude sinker. Bengal,
India 103,312
No. 2. Stone sinkers, rough or slightly modified by pecking, lashed in slings
of rawhide. Alaskan Eskimos 63,737,63,744
No. 3. Stone sinkers notched or grooved for purposes of attachment- 42,920, 17,837
No. 4. Polished stone sinkers or plummets grooved or notched for suspension.
These objects could easily have been fastened in a sling of cord or
bark. From mounds of the Ohio Valley 7,790, 42,491
No. 5. Sinkers, ivory or stone, perforated for attachment to a line or net. In
one example there is a suggestion of a lure in the form of a small
fish 63,377, 44,935, 56,577
No. 6. Eskimo sinkers of bone or ivory, carved in the form of fishes to act as
lures. The Eskimos are clever in making sinkere of this kind to imitate
various small animals on which the larger ones prey 38, 277, 33,194
No. 7. Eskimo sinkers of bone and colored stones, perforated for suspension.
Bottom, of bright colors to attract the fish, ingeniously riveted or
lashed to the upper portion. One example is perforated for two sets
of hooks 46,313, 44,277
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No. 8. Polynesian sinker for giant squid, consisting of a shell for lure, a grooved stone for sinker, and sharpened wire flukes in the wooden shaft to excite the animal 4,842
No. 9. Lead sinker from Greece, with wire attachment 103,299
No. 10. Double-gafE hook or drail from Lapland. Lead sinker 28,169
No. 11. Double gaff or drail from Greenland. Sinker of lead, in the form of a fish; extra line attached 103,098
No. 12. Whiffling mackerel line with four flies and spinner 103,112
No. 13. Eskimo fishing line from Point Barrow for catching small cod through
the ice, complete ; hook, lure, sinker, baleen line, and reel 89,545
No. 14. Scotch codfish hook. Lead lure in form of a fish, painted, to which are
attached six barbed hooks 103,153
No. 15. English mackerel and pollock whifllng line with spinner and Challenger
bait 103,013