1892-93.] 



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long railing already mentioned, no artificial fastening therewith is required. 

 The weir is then ready to receive the fishing apparatus, which consists of 

 the hurdles,* the bottle-like baskets nazrwdt^ and the narrow terminal 

 baskets, Y^ds.\ 



The hurdles are made of different sizes, according to the place they 

 are to occupy. They are simply barkless spruce switches, held slightly 

 apart by a few transversal sticks laid against, not entwined with, the 

 trellis work, and there secured by being wattled with wattup or spruce 

 root. The larger number of these hurdles serve to line the upstream 

 side of the weir, thereby closing every possible issue through it, while 

 with the rest are constructed corral-like enclosures guarding the mouth 

 of the baskets, as shown in the accompanying diagram (fig. Jl). The 



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entrance to these corrals, and therefore to the trap, is at a, and is gener- 

 ally half a foot wide. A stand for parts of the barrier or weir. The 

 salmon upon stealing in finds its way up blocked at b, and by a sidewise 

 evolution comes in sight of the long conduit prepared for it in the shape 

 of the nazrwat or main basket r, together with the narrow terminal 

 cylinders d. With a view of liberating itself from the hurdle enclosure, 

 it swims down as far as the terminal cylinders, which, being' too narrow 

 to permit of its turning back, thus determine its capture. Others 

 following will soon pack even the broader end of the nazrwat to such an 

 extent that oftentimes no moving room is left. The dotted outlines in 



* Icd-sfju, a contraction of tcm-sfju, " stick-lwined." 



+ A contraction of itanisi-wst, " cylindrical at the niouili (and lony in body)." 

 J Prim. root. Means any long, slender and smooih-siirficed appendage, as a handle, a stem. 

 So named because it is considered as the handle of the funnel-like basket or iiazrwdt. 



