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FISHING. They had various methods of catching fish--with hook and line, with a spear, by weir-traps in the stream, and by saturating thewater with the juice of the soap-root plant (_Chlorogalumpomeridianum_). Before they could obtain fishhooks of modernmake, they made them of bone. Their lines were made of the tough, fibrous, silken bark of the variety of milkweed or silkweed, already mentioned. Their spears were small poles pointed with asingle tine of bone, which was so arranged that it becam...edetached by the struggles of the fish, and was then held by astring fastened near its center, which turned it crosswise of thewound and made it act as an effective barb. Their weir-traps were put in the rapids, and constructed bybuilding wing dams diagonally down to the middle of the streamuntil the two ends came near together, and in this narrow outletwas placed a sort of wicker basket trap, made of long willowsprouts loosely woven together and closed at the pointed lowerend, which was elevated above the surface of the water below thedam.
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