fish-weirs

They also built runways or fish-weirs and made them so that the fish would become crowded into a narrow passage, and could easily be dipped out with nets or baskets.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

I could see an entire New Jersey regiment chasing horses and cattle; another regiment piling up canoes, fish-weirs, and the hewn logs of bridges, to make a mighty fire; still other regiments trampling out the last vestige of green stuff in the pretty gardens.

The Hidden Children 1899

Virginia indian embroidery 28 feather work 27 fish-weirs 14

Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 William Henry Holmes 1889

HARIOT, THOMAS, on indian costume 22 mat houses 18 indian fish-weirs 14 method of spinning 23

Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 William Henry Holmes 1889

The regulation of fish-weirs soon became an important matter in all towns where streams let alewives up from the sea.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

River, which debouches out of a scraggy country into a bayou with ragged shores, about which the Indians have encampments, and in which are the skeleton stakes of fish-weirs.

Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Our way lay along the charming bay of the Bras d'Or, over the sprawling bridge of the Big Baddeck, a black, sedgy, lonesome stream, to Middle River, which debouches out of a scraggy country into a bayou with ragged shores, about which the Indians have encampments, and in which are the skeleton stakes of fish-weirs.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The only canoes are used for ferrying; I saw no water-traffic, and there were no longer any fish-weirs.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

But it would require five days to reach the fish-weirs at the mouth of Colt [- killed] Creek, even if we were able to follow the proper ridges of the mountains; and the danger of missing our direction is exceedingly great while every track is covered with snow.

First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805

The clause promising the removal of fish-weirs (§ 33) was intended to facilitate the navigation of rivers.

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