"Well then, they used to have a dresser in their kitchen, a dresser.
And they'd have jugs all up and down, you know, jugs. Oh yes. That would
be all up and down on hooks outside of the dresser. Two things that she
had [her mother] there were two jugs, a... roosters, you know.
Like jugs but they were in the shape of a rooster. I don't know where
she got them to... perhaps my father would have brought them from Sydney;
he used to go to Sydney and places, you know, he used to go in the
schooners."
(Mrs. Alice Forsey, Grand Bank, Fortune Bay)
 egardless of the type of
fishery they pursued, fishing families of the nineteenth and early
twentieth century shared a remarkably similar material world. They
obtained similar kinds of objects from similar sources and used and
stored them in much the same way.
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Net Hook
Homemade
Net hook collected from Old Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, circa 1930s.
These naturally shaped forked branches were used to hold up portions
of mesh to facilitate repair work.
(Newfoundland Museum)
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