People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — Fish Nets. [ARTICLE]

Fish Nets.

Fish nets are made from some very strange materials. The Esquimaux manufacture them from strips of seal hide, and from thin slices of whalebones. By the Fijians they are constructed of human hair. Savages in various parts of the world plait the inner fibers of tree bark for fishing lines, and the Indians on the Pacific coast of North America use for the same purpose seaweed—a sort of kelp which is strong enough to hold a finny captive of one hundred and fifty pounds weight