. Bulletin. Ethnology. 576 SINIMIUT SINNONQDIBESSE [b. a. e. members of which were there at the same time. Cf. Senecu. (h. e. b.) Gensoc.—Valero Bautismos, 1739, MS. Censoo.— Ibid. Seniczo.—Ibid., 1728. Senixzo.—Ibid., 1728. Sinimiut. A Central Eskimo tribe on Pelly bay, Canada. They live on musk- ox and salmon like the tribes of Hudson bav, and have also an abundance of seals. They numbered 45 in 1902. Pelly Bay Eskimo,—Ausland, 653, 1885. Sina- miut.—Boas in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xv, pt. 2, 377, 1907. Sinimijut.—Boas in Zeitschr. Ges. f. Erdk., 226, 1883. Sinimiut.—Boas in 6tli Rep. B.
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 576 SINIMIUT SINNONQDIBESSE [b. a. e. members of which were there at the same time. Cf. Senecu. (h. e. b.) Gensoc.—Valero Bautismos, 1739, MS. Censoo.— Ibid. Seniczo.—Ibid., 1728. Senixzo.—Ibid., 1728. Sinimiut. A Central Eskimo tribe on Pelly bay, Canada. They live on musk- ox and salmon like the tribes of Hudson bav, and have also an abundance of seals. They numbered 45 in 1902. Pelly Bay Eskimo,—Ausland, 653, 1885. Sina- miut.—Boas in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xv, pt. 2, 377, 1907. Sinimijut.—Boas in Zeitschr. Ges. f. Erdk., 226, 1883. Sinimiut.—Boas in 6tli Rep. B. A. E., 451, 1888. Siningmon. A Kaviagmiut Eskimo vil- lage on Golofnin bav, Alaska.—11th Cen- sus, Alaska, 162, 1893. Sinkers. Primitive fishermen every- where weight their lines and nets with stones. These are usually pebbles or other suitable bits of stone, grooved or notched for attachment by / means of cords. Those now I in use by the Indian tribes, as I well ae by the whites, cor- \ _,; respond with specimens found in large numbers along the banks of streams and the shores of lakes and other large bodies of water. Larger specimens of the same general shape become anchors (q. V.) on occasion, and the better fin- ished forms pass by imperceptible gra- dations into the very large group of ob- jects classed as plummets (q. v.), and, in another direction, into the stone club- heads of the Plains tribes (see Weapoiis). Adair states that the Southern Indians, having placed a trap in the bed of the stream, drove the fish toward it by means of a rope made of long grape vines to which were attached stones at proper distances, men placed on opposite sides Sinker; N. (1-3). (1-2J of the stream dragging the weighted rope along the bottom. The extent to which nets (q. v.) were used by the Indians of the Middle Atlantic states is not known; but the impressions of nets of varying degrees of fineness on pottery show at least that nets were in common use. Consult Abbott, P
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