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Hooks & Cloths. The stuff ranged from fishhooks to architecture, and each New World exhibit has its Asiatic counterpart. In most of Oceania, for instance, the natives used two kinds of fishhook: a barbed, composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...
...their duty. This year they are to discover and tell what flies or bait the fish are taking, where are the good pools. They will advise fishermen what waters are "posted," which is the nearest short-cut through the woods. They are to try to encourage the use of barbless hooks and the nonuse of landing nets, "to give the fish a fighting chance." Game Commissioner Morgenthau's father was a diplomat: U. S. Ambassador to Turkey...
...only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard-a cigarette butt, a finger. Mr. Pierce was a sportsman and permitted only flyfishing, with barbless hooks...