Lapland larkspur are caught with tiny nooses made of wiialebone thread. Little auks, puffins, and crow-bills are caught with nets suspended over cliffs. Ducks, geese, and brants are brought to the ground by means of ivory or bone balls tied together with... English-Eskimo and Eskimo-English Vocabularies - Page 23by Roger Wells - 1890 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - Education - 1890 - 82 pages
...wiialebone thread. Little auks, puffins, and crow-bills are caught with nets suspended over clifls. Ducks, geese, and brants are brought to the ground...flocks, where they wind around the necks of the birds. (G) Foxes are caught with dead-falls or automatic nooses set in holes in the snow. The fox in pulling... | |
| United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1890 - 958 pages
...wiiale1x>ue thread. Little auks, puffins, and crow-bills are caught with nets .tuspeiided over clitls. Ducks, geese, and brants are brought to the ground...balls tied together with sinew thread, thrown into tlocks, where they wind around the necks of the birds. (it) Fujce» are caught with dead falls or automatic... | |
| United States. Census Office. 11th census, 1890 - Alaska - 1893 - 482 pages
...with tiny nooses made of whalebone thread. Little auks, puffins, and crowbills are caught with neta suspended over cliffs. Ducks, geese, and brants are...ivory or bone balls tied together with sinew thread and throw» into flocks, where they wind around the necks of the birds. In the latter part of May and... | |
| United States. Census Office - Alaska - 1893 - 462 pages
...to the snow, into which they are driven. Lapland larks are caught with tiny nooses made of whalebone thread. Little auks, puffins, and crowbills are caught with nets suspended over cliffs. Ducks, geese, aud brants are brought to the ground by means of ivory or bone balls tied together with sinew thread... | |
| Education - 1888 - 1078 pages
...winter they toss an iceball with their feet, keeping it from touching the ground for hours at a timej sometimes they toss it from one to another. Sometimes...flocks, where they wind around the necks of the birds. (li) Foxes are caught with dead-falls or automatic nooses set in holes in the snow. The fox in pulling... | |
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