. Bulletin. Ethnology. Drucker] THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NOOTKAN TRIBES 25 rake. I admit I never quite understood why the fishermen changed from one device to the other, and back again, but they had their reasons for so doing. This net and a small scooplike one for cod were the only fishing nets. The herring net was a rectangular section of fine mesh webbing. Several Central Nootkan informants described it as a shallow conical bag; probably there were two different types in use. It was made fast to two poles each about a fathom long, lashed by their centers a fathom apart on a long slim handle
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Drucker] THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NOOTKAN TRIBES 25 rake. I admit I never quite understood why the fishermen changed from one device to the other, and back again, but they had their reasons for so doing. This net and a small scooplike one for cod were the only fishing nets. The herring net was a rectangular section of fine mesh webbing. Several Central Nootkan informants described it as a shallow conical bag; probably there were two different types in use. It was made fast to two poles each about a fathom long, lashed by their centers a fathom apart on a long slim handle. The other type of net was a small conical bag attached to an el- liptical or oval hoop, about 2 feet in maximum length and from 16 to 20 inches wide (fig. 7). There was a cross stick near one end that. /\PPROXIM/IT£LY I FT. Figure 7.—Frame for hand dip net for codfish, used with lure. Inset: Netting knot (simple square knot, awkward to tie in a net), used for cod dip net and other forms of netting. the grasped with his hand, palm up, so that the near end of the hoop was braced against the back of his \vrist. With this rather crude piece of apparatus he scooped up small cod that he lured to the surface with a spinner. This net, and the conical Central Nootkan herring net, was started on a ring of spruce root, about an inch and a half in diameter, with the ends crossed at right angles to leave smaller apertures. This ring was suspended from a cord, so the net could be tied^^into it. No gage or shuttle was Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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