[388]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 110.
[389]. “Their Lines are made of Whalebones, cut very small and thin, and at the End tacked together.” Egede, Greenland, p. 107. See also, Crantz, vol. 1, p. 95; Dall, Alaska, p. 148; and the Museum Collections which contain many whalebone lines from the Mackenzie and Anderson rivers, collected by MacFarlane, and from the whole western region, collected by Nelson.
[390]. “Instead of a bait, they put on the hook a white bone, a glass bead, or a bit of red cloth” (when fishing for sculpins). History of Greenland, vol. 1, p. 95.
[391]. Narrative, p. 115.
[392]. The Greenlanders used a sort of sieve or scoop net, not seen at Point Barrow, for catching caplin (Mallotus villosus). Egede, Greenland, p. 108; and Crantz, vol. 1, p. 95. John Davis, however, says of the Greenlanders in 1586, “They make nets to take their fish of the finne of a whale.” Hakluyt’s Voyages, etc. (1589), p. 782.
[393]. Dall, Alaska, p. 147; and Petroff, Report, etc., p. 127.
[394]. Op cit., p. 73.
[395]. Op cit., p. 142.
[396]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 109.
[397]. See the writer’s paper in the American Anthropologist, vol. 1, pp. 325-336.