Indian Fishing Early Methods on the Northwest Coast

Summary: The Northwest Coast people devised ingenious ways of catching the different species of fish, creating a technology vastly different from that of today's industrial world. With attention to clarity and detail, Hilary Stewart illustrates their hooks, lines, sinkers, lures, floats, clubs, spears, harpoons, nets, traps, rakes and gaffs, showing how these were made and used in over 450 drawings and 75 photographs. One section demonstrates how the catch was butchered, cooked, rendered and preserved. The spiritual aspects of fishing are described as well -- prayers and ceremonies in gratitude and hono.

Record details

ISBN: 9781926706399 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1926706390 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (181 p.)
Publisher: New York : Douglas & McIntyre, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatBulkString:sept.20.12 Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Reference keys, reference index; How the Fish Came into the Sea; Map; Contents; The People of the Sea; Hook, Line and Sinker; Fishing lines; Sinkers; Steam-bent hooks; Salmon trolling; The northern halibut hook; Lures; Floats; Clubs; Spears and Harpoons; Sturgeon fishing; Gaff hooks; The herring rake; Nets and Netting; Eulachon fishing; Traps and Weirs; Basket traps; Stone fish traps; The herring spawn harvest; Cooking and Preserving Fish; Cooking; Preserving fish; Dried herring spawn; Eulachon oil; Kelp bottles for eulachon oil; Fish knives.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.