File:History of Inventions USNM 27 Sinkers.jpg
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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 ART. 9. HISTORY OF INVENTIONS HOUGH. 29 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 |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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