. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. m\ IrV* â ^ m^ i\ ill I I! :;! ; II'â â ⢠!â : i ! if â i'f| .ii i 1 ! i 342 T/ir Priuiitivc SllAlil'KNRI) NEK- USKD lOR CATCHING IISII rN F KANCK. Not ocls alone are taken with this needle, for M. de la Blanchere informs us that jnany kinds offish are caught with it in France. Any doubts as to the use of the Neolithic form of fish-gorge must be removed when it can be insisted upon that precisely this form of implement was in
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. m\ IrV* â ^ m^ i\ ill I I! :;! ; II'â â ⢠!â : i ! if â i'f| .ii i 1 ! i 342 T/ir Priuiitivc SllAlil'KNRI) NEK- USKD lOR CATCHING IISII rN F KANCK. Not ocls alone are taken with this needle, for M. de la Blanchere informs us that jnany kinds offish are caught with it in France. Any doubts as to the use of the Neolithic form of fish-gorge must be removed when it can be insisted upon that precisely this form of implement was in use hy our Indians not more than forty years ago. In 1878, when studying this (juestion of the primitive hook, I was fortunate enough to receive direct testi- mony on the subject. My informant, who in his younger days had lived among the Indians at the head-waters of Lake Superior, said that in 1846 the Indians used a gorge made of bone to catch their fish. My authority, who had never .seen a prehistoric fish- gorge, save the drawing of one, said that the Indian form was precisely like the early shape, and that the Chippewas fished some with the hook of civilization, others with bone gorges of a primitive period. In tracing the history of the fish-hook, it should be borne in mind that an overlapping of periods must have taken place. B)' this is meant, that at one and the same time an individual employed tools or weapons of various periods. To-day, the Western hunter lights his fire with a match. This splinter of wood, tipped with phospho- rus, the chlorates, sulphur, or paraffine, represents the progn^ss made in chemistry from the time of the alchemists. But this trapper is sure to have stowed away in his pouch, ready for an emergency, his flint and steel. The Esquimau, the Alaskan, shoots his seal with an American repeating rifle, and, in lieu of a knife, flays the creature with a flint splinter. The net of the Norseman is to-day sunk with stones or buoyed with woo
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