Indeed, some variety of this method of taking game is universally practiced throughout the two continents.
Rake devices imitate the fingers half bent, and are used in gathering mollusks. In several parts of America rakes were made by driving bones into handles, and thus animals were gathered. In many of these, piercing and also retrieving functions are superadded to that of gathering.
Fig. i—a, b, d, Bolas for ostrich and guanaco, from Patagonia (U.S.N.M. No 130,503; collected by Leslie Lee); c, Bolas for water birds, from Alaska (U.S.N.M. No. 75,969; collected by P.H. Ray).
The hook resembles the bent finger or fingers. This device has called forth a great deal of ingenuity. Commencing with the crooked finger, there comes the hand aided by the short hook; the gaff hook; the hook at the end of a string, or squid hook:
