Note 59 — PART I

See Man, Feb., 1915, “Note on the new kind of Fish-hook,” by Henry Balfour. The illustration is reproduced by the kind permission of Mr. H. Balfour and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Another notable hook is one of wood about four inches long with a claw (said to be that of a bird) attached, which Vancouver collected on his voyage in N.W. American waters (see Ethnographical Coll. at Brit. Mus.). The whalebone in this must not be mistaken for anything else but a snood. For the ingenious derivation of certain hooks in some South Sea Islands from their similarity to the bones of common fish, e.g. Cod and Haddock, see T. McKenny Hughes, in Archæol. Jour., vol. 58, No. 230, pp. 199-213. See also J. G. Wood, Nature’s Teaching (London, 1877), pp. 115-6, on the point.