{"id":435,"date":"2012-02-13T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:42:05","slug":"fish-trap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/artifacts\/fish-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-quote row\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2374\" title=\"Elijah_Andrew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/files\/2012\/03\/Elijah_Andrew-80x80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/>\u201cThe fish trap was something else our ancestors used a great deal, and perhaps it was the best and easiest method used in catching fish. The following is needed in order to build a fish trap: eddy, long wooden poles with bark left on, long wooden poles with bark cleaned off. The first thing to do was choose a good eddy. Directly downstream from this eddy is where the trap was built. The poles with bark are driven into the bottom with an opening in between. Poles were then put horizontally, like a fence. The next thing to do was to build a long basket. This was made from the clean wooden poles, and it was set in the opening, and the small end was closed. Then you waited. The fish would come along and swim straight into the trap in great numbers. The fish were then scooped into the canoe with a large willow dipper with a long handle. A lot of fish were caught this way.\u201d<br \/>\n<span class=\"intro-quote-teller\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/storytellers\/elijah-andrew-chuuzhaati\/\">Elijah Andrew<\/a>, Teetl\u2019it Gwich\u2019in Elder, 1970s<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe fish trap was something else our ancestors used a great deal, and perhaps it was the best and easiest method used in catching fish. The following is needed in order to build a fish trap: eddy, long wooden poles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/artifacts\/fish-trap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":300,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"artifact.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435\/revisions\/2870"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/gwichin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}