Image: Village on the lower Yukon during fishing season - Dall

Description: Indian village on the lower Yukon during fishing season, 1868 Dall provides the following description - not of the illustration but probably of the same village (if so, the drawing has been simplified): "...about noon stopped at a village where the inhabitants were engaged in fishing. It is only by personal inspection of such a village that any one can obtain an adequate idea of the immense quantity of fish which is annually caught and dried on the Lower Yukon. Several acres of ground in front of the summer houses were literally covered with standards and stages bearing line after line of fish, split and hung up to dry. The odor is borne to a great distance by the wind." "...long rows of caches are crammed with provisions for the winter. This condition of things holds good as far as Anvi'k. Beyond that point the fish are scarcer, and, as previously related, Nulato is far from furnishing food of any kind in plenty. In the foreground the different parts of fish-traps were lying, in readiness to repair any damage, or put down a new trap, if the water fell so as to render it necessary. Here some men were emptying the fish out of a basket, and there others were eturning with a canoe-load of salmon from some distant zapor." Dall pp 228-229
Title: Village on the lower Yukon during fishing season - Dall
Credit: Alaska, and Its Resources, William Healey Dall, c1870, 1897 edition by Lea and Shepard [1]
Author: William Healey Dall from his original sketch, redrawn by or with the assistance of Henry Elliott, engraved by John Andrew
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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