Fishing nets made from inner bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41446 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 160.00 SALICACEAE Salix cordata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Fishing nets made from inner bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Fishing nets made from inner bark | Geography Description | Canada, Northwest Territories, Peel River Post (Fort McPherson) | ||
| Uses | Fishing nets made from inner barkUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Campbell Robert | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 08/09/1851 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Made and used by the Loucheux (Gwich'in) of the Mackenzie River District, Northwest Territories, Canada. Excerpt from letter from Campbell to Hooker dated 8 September 1851: ''I have now the pleasure of forwarding to you a net of willow bark I just procure, d from a Loucheux [Gwich'in] woman with lines for backing nets, fishing & &. The willow that yields the bark so universally used by the Indians for nets, fortunately grows abundantly along all the water courses. I forward a slip of it, with specimens of t, he bark in every stage of the process, from when its inner rind is [?] with an awl till it is ripped in strips for spinning into twisted threads ready to be laced into nets. The whole process is simple & expeditious. The woman goes into the willow thicket, s and bends them down till they break and strips off the bark downwards, then [?] the inner & serviceable rind with an awl, then with the teeth and hand separate it from the outer always towards the root, it is next made into slender strips, & if dry are, wetted in the mouth, or water, and twisted by the hand, on the thigh above the knee, into threads joining one to one and coiling the [?] into a ball ready for lacing into nets'' (RBG Kew Archives, Directors Correspondence, Vol. 64, 1851-1858, North Americ, an Letters: fo. 76). | ||||