86 FISH HARVESTING. 
But the great haul of hauls is effected by a 
most ingeniously-contrived basket, in principle 
the same as our eel-baskets. It is made of split 
vine-maple, lashed together with strips of cedar- 
bark. These baskets vary in size; some of them 
are fifteen feet long, and six in circumference. 
The crafty savages place their wicker traps in the 
centre of the stream; a dam of latticework on 
each side reaches to the bank, so that no fish can 
get up-stream unless through the trap. Another 
plan, and a very good one where the water is 
shallow, is to build a little wall of boulders, 
rising about a foot above water, slanting the wall 
obliquely until the ends meet in the centre of 
the stream at an acute angle; at this point they 
place the basket. By this plan all the water is 
forced through the basket, increasing the depth 
and strength of the current. In happy ignorance 
of their danger, the fish ply steadily up-current, 
until they suddenly find themselves caged. 
When a sufficient number of fish are in the 
basket, an empty one is carried out and set, the 
other brought ashore; its contents are turned out 
upon the grass. Squaws, old and young, knife in 
hand, squat round, looking eagerly on; and as the 
captives lie flapping on the sward, in the harpies 
rush, seize a trout, rip him up, remove the inside, 
