In the line of throwing weapons is the _pūtchkohu_ of the Mokis, a first cousin to the Australian boomerang. It is effective at thirty or forty yards, but does not return. It is a flat piece of curved oak, sawed out of a bend of a limb, about twenty inches long, one quarter to one half inch thick, and two inches wide, with a small handle at one end. It is thrown with the concave side forward. [Illustration: AMERINDIAN KNIVES Ute stone knife. Handle of wood and blade set in a dark cement Eskimo slate knives. Handles of wood ] Nets were used for fishing and for hunting. The Pai Utes made a good net of cord, from milkweed or sagebrush bark, about as thick as telegraph wire. It was about fifty feet long and three feet broad, and was propped up on the ground on a number of slender rods, one net being joined to another’s end until a large semi-circle was formed into which rabbits from a large area were frightened by noises. Caught in the meshes, they were soon despatched by their pursuers. Many Amerinds used nets for fishing, and the Eskimo make a fine, strong one of sealskin, with which they catch the seal itself as it rushes after prey in the waters near some beach where the net is stretched. I obtained one that is fifty feet long and about six feet wide, with meshes seven inches square. [Illustration: MOKI THROWING-STICK, OR PUTCHKOHU.] [Illustration: PUEBLO PLANTING STICK.] [Illustration: ZUÑI WOODEN SPADE. Used for shovelling snow from roofs and for taking bread from ovens ]