Indian Salmon Drying Rack

ID: 522 ~ Source: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
Accession number
34483 ~ Creator: Cobb, John N. ~ Date: 1917

This file appears in: Northern Straits Indians: Resourceful Fishermen of the San Juan Islands

Indian Salmon Drying Rack — his is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the en:University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

Pacific Salmon Fisheries., Annual report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce, 1915-1916, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office

This file appears in: Northern Straits Indians: Resourceful Fishermen of the San Juan Islands

Northern Straits Indians: Resourceful Fishermen of the San Juan Islands – Salmon Drying Racks and Other Fishing Stories

By Brooke Nicholson

The Northern Straits Indians developed an extensive fishing technology to harvest the abundant fish of the straits, particularly the many varieties of salmon. Salmon was the most important staple of the Native diet and plentiful with five annual…