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herring-rake
Northwest Coast
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1932
. . . they used [c1790] for both herring and oolakan a pole about 18 feet long, with a blade 6 feet long by a foot [an inch] wide fitted with a number of bone spikes; almost every stroke of this curious club into a shoal of herring brought up three or four fish.
1953
For gathering herring, a very ancient implement was used. It was called a herring-rake and consisted of a long, flat piece of cedar or fir set with 2-inch teeth along 3 or 4 feet of one end.
1958
The herring rake--a long stick with spikes on one side--still remains a favourite weapon among the humbler fishing-folk, as it was before the white man came.
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