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and the switch which encircles its rim is laid on the outside, instead of 

 the inside, surface of the bark edges. This also lacks the thorough 

 wattup wrapping of the rim, for which is substituted a spiral lacing of a 

 coarser kind of spruce root. To prevent the thin birch bark from yielding 

 too much to the pressure of the rim switch, a double lining consisting of 

 two narrow strips of bark is applied against the vessel's edge both on the 

 inside and on the outside. 



It should be added that a few fish trays are also made with seams 

 exactly as the common dish or tray (fig. 1 14). 



The length of this vessel is generally double its width, which, in 

 extreme cases, may reach as much as one foot and a half. It does 

 service principally in connection with the daily net-fishing. The net, 

 which has been left to dry during the day, is at dusk prepared for use at 

 home, the floats and sinkers being there attached in their proper places. 

 The whole is then carefully folded and deposited in this tray, after which 

 the fisherman — or rather fisherwoman, since net fishing invariably 

 devolves on the woman — proceeds to the spot in the lake chosen to set 

 it. When it is withdrawn in the morning; two such vessels may generally 

 be seen in the canoe, one destined to hold the fish, the other reserved for 

 the net, which is folded therein as soon as drawn out of the water. 



Fig. 117. 



Fig. 118 



No vessels of European or American manufacture have so far replaced 

 any of the above described utensils. This is not the case with figs. 117 

 and 118, tor which tin or copper vessels have long been substituted. 

 The former, however, was still to be seen in actual use some ten or fifteen 

 years ago. It was intended to keep water in ; hence its Carrier name 



