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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ummets are, as a rule,bulky, and were probably nsed to weigh down thelong grape-vine ropes1 with which the Indians werewont to drag the rivers in driving the fishes beforethem into their large cane traps. The noise of thesestones roiling along the bottom would have materiallyassisted in frightening the fishes from their hiding-places and in compelling them to swim toward the de-sired point. Other fishing-plummets2 (Fig. 10, Plate XIX.) havea single, groove around the middle, while others still(Fig. 9, Plate XIX.) have two or more grooves inter- 1 See Adairs History of the American Indians, p. 403. London, 1775. 2 Prof. Rau has in his collection net-sinkers, notched and grooved, found nearMuncy, on the banks of the Susquehanna River. I have seen similar ones fromthe shores of Rhode Island. These types are also represented in the islets andreefs of the west coast of Sweden (Nilssons Stone Age, p. 26, plate ii., Figs. 32,34, 35, London, 1868), and in other localities in Europe. riateXDL.
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AM PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHICCC. N. Yj OSBOR\ESPROCESS NET-SINKERS. NETS, 339 sectmg each other at right angles. These grooves arecarelessly cut or pecked, and are intended to facilitatethe attachment. Fig. 12, Plate XIX., illustrates a morecarefully-wrought kind of plummet, which may havebeen employed to weight the hand-line in fishing witha hook. These sinkers abound along the banks of the Savan-nah Eiver above Augusta, and are found upon thebluffs of other streams where the Indians habituallycongregated for the purpose of fishing. Near the con-fluence of Great Kiokee Creek and the Savannah Riveran extended kitchen-refus8-pile was cut in two and laidbare, some years since, by a heavy freshet. Hundredsof these perforated and notched sinkers were thereunearthed, showing the great quantities manufacturedand used by the natives at this point. In his account of the fish-preserve near the villageof the Cacique of Pacaha, the Gentleman of Elvas inti-mates that cast-nets1 were there made and used b

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