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Poplar bark cordadge fishnet

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Parnell:
I just saw this and I like that very much.  Lately been getting pretty good at using a cast net (store bought of course), but I am starting to really understand why people would have wanted to put so much time and effort into making one.  Nets feed people!

swamp yeti:
Thanks Leroy.You are right Parnell nets would feed an entire village.

richardzane:
nice work! twisting cordage is one thing... but nets!
up near the Georgian Bay my wendat ancestors made fish nets, and these were so important for survival that they had ceremonies
to "wed" a young woman to a net. Perhaps it was thought to make the net more responsible to provide, and more apt to catch more fish.

swamp yeti:
You are right Richard fishing I think was just as important as hunting my ancestors the Powhatan also fished coastal Virginia for thousands of years.

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