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varveau
[< Cdn F < F varveau, verveau fish trap]
Pacific Coast
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:varvo(e), varvou, verveau, vervo, etc.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n. — Obs.
See quote.
Quotations
1828
Indians here and there along the river, with verveux (sweep nets) at each lodge.
2n. — Hist.
a woven basket, about 6 feet long, used by certain Indian bands in fishing with a barrier, q.v., the basket being attached over an opening in the weir.
See: barrier
Quotations
1832
I think that in twelve days I will send a party after you so that you may go to the Verveau and the men I send will go to you wherever you are....
1833
Gaps are left in the works [barrier] of sufficient size to admit the varveaux, or baskets, in which the fish are taken.
1860
Tahow arrived from Sevwright River and states that the Varvoux there and Barrier is complete.
1905
A particular tribe ... captured this [white-] fish by means of a pouch-basket ("vervoe") placed in the running stream....
1953
The salmon -- sockeye -- were caught in traps called weirs or "varvoes," "varvons," or "varves" in the journals.