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oolichan grease
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the 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
1880
The oil is carefully stored away, and used as a condiment to dried fish or berries, instead of the oolachen grease, which by this tribe of Haidas is not much in request.
1966
There was [at the potlatch] also a great deal of oolachan-grease and soapollalie.