fish oil

West Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a clear, edible oil rendered from the oolachan and long a highly valuable food and trade item among the Coast and Inland Indians of British Columbia.

Quotations

1884

[There was] Hayou makmak: 12 baskets of herring spawn; two barrels of molasses, and one barrel of fish oil.