184 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Fish preparations. 



13752. Dried eggs of quinnat salmon (Sahno quinnat). Used as food by the 

 McCloud River Indians. California. Shasta County, California. 

 Livingston Stone. 



21187. Eggs of "herring" (sp. incog.). Used as food by Sitka Indians. 

 Collected by them upon branches of hemlock {Ahies Mcrtcnsiana), 

 planted in shallow water, upon the spawning grounds of the fish. 

 Sitka, Alaska. J. G. Swan. 



Smoked sturgeon. 



Veziga, prepared from the notochord of sturgeon. 



Insects. 



Dried grasshoppers (Indian). 



25314. Grasshoppers. Dried for food by the Indians of Southern California. 

 E. Palmer. 



"Worms. 



Dried worms (Indian). 



Mollusk preparations. 



Dried abalones {Haliotis) prepared by the California Chinese. 

 Dried siphons of Schizothcerus i^repared by the Indians of the North- 

 west coast. 

 Dried slugs {Limax, &c.), used by Indians. 



Radiate preparations. 



(Dried holothurians, " beches de mer," used by Chinese.) 



Protozoans. 



("Mountain meal," a kind of infusorial earth, mixed with flour, and 

 used as food in Laj)land and China.) 



3. Foods: salted, canxed, and pickled, 



mammal preparations. 



Salted buffalo-meat. 



Salted beef.i 



Salted deer, reindeer, elk. 



Salted tongues of beef, buffalo, deer, horse.* 



Salted pork.^ 



Canned milk of the various brands. 



1 See above, p. 163. 



