Fig- 74- 



^6 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. IV. 



the above diagram represent the end of each basket which, it is useless 

 to add, is left opened so as to afford a free passage for the fish. Such 

 traps are generally constructed in pairs as is shown above. 



Instead of shutting with trellis work the furthest end of the last Kas 



or narrow cylinder, some add thereto a 

 large rectangular box-like reserv^oir pro- 

 vided with a conical conduit or entrance 

 (fig. 74) tapering into the box so as to pre- 

 clude the possibility of the fish escaping 

 once it has entered and found the liberty of movements it lacked while in 

 the narrow baskets. Therein the salmon crowd in such numbers that they 

 soon get packed as sardines in a box and finally squeeze themselves to 

 death.* 



This trap is efficient at night only, and when the large ter- 

 minal basket just mentioned is wanting, the nazrwat has to 

 be watched lest the fish remaining at its mouth eventually 

 make good their escape. At least two Indians go every 

 morning and lift up with wooden hooks (fig. 75) such 

 parts of the trap as cannot easily be reached by the hand 

 and carefully empty its contents into their canoe. The K3s« 

 are but temporarily connected, being detachable at will 

 Two or three, or in extreme cases as many as four, are 

 ordinarily added to the nazrwot. 



The nazrwat measures at least 15 feet in length and as 

 much as 6 or 8 feet in its greatest width,-f- while its narrow 

 end is not more than 6 inches wide. Uniform with the 

 latter is the Kas, which is of variable length, 10 feet being 

 pj„ ». probably the minimum and 16 the maximum. 

 Clear pieces of Douglas fir (Pinus inurrayaiia) are the material chosen 

 in the preparation of these fish traps and of all those which 

 remain to describe. Once a suitable fir trunk has been split 

 into portable sizes the wood is allowed to remain a i^"^ days 

 in the water, after which it is converted with the help of the 

 bone wedge (fig. 75 bis) into long and very slender rods which 

 are then shaved smooth with the knife and assigned to their 

 respective places in the structure. The encircling pieces are 

 of spruce {Abies nigra) and are wattled to the longitudinal 

 Fij.7~75 bis. rods with the usual wattup or spruce root. 



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* These reservoirs are called yiita-sKai,3. contraction oi yiitat-asViai, "it (recipient) lies down 

 stream." 



+ This, of course, varies with the depth of the stream. 



