Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 · New York : The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 39
turn of the cord under the mesh-block and up to the top side where it is held fast by the thumb pressing the block; then a loop is thrown to the left, the needle passed through the mesh-opening just above, en- closing the cords, and the knot drawn taut. It should be noted that the netting-needles… … among the northern Atlantic Fig. 8. — Measuring blocks for making nets. and Canadian Algonkin. The nets are used for dragging across the channel of the river, as set or gill nets, and for fykes. A party of Nanticoke take one of the nets in a boat and row across Indian river at one of its nar- rower…
Nanticoke Indians · Indians of North America
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