W. M. Beauchamp

“ There seems to have been a defect in the material, which caused the sharp point of the barb to break off, and which weakened the hook itself. This came from an early site where I have gathered many articles myself, and all are clearly prehistoric. The large copper spear figured by me for Dr. Abbott's 'Primitive Industries' came from the same field.
Yet I think the New-York Indians seldom used hooks. All the early references are to fishing with nets and spears; and our Indian village sites are seldom on the shores of deep lakes, almost always by streams, or near the shallow rifts of rivers. ”

“ Stone fish-weirs are not uncommon, probably used as they were farther south. One of three deep bays which I measured was a work of great magnitude. Nets were much used, and I have found the flat sinkers on sites far away from the water. ”