Wishham (i.e., Wishram) fishing platform – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Wishham (i.e., Wishram) fishing platform
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Perched over the rushing water of the Columbia River, this platform shows the Wishram fishing method, with its nets and weirs set into the current. Such platforms, built above the rapids near Celilo Falls, were long-used fishing grounds for Wishram families, who relied on salmon runs for food for many generations. Edward S. Curtis made the picture around 1910 for his multivolume work *The North American Indian*, where it appeared as plate 102 in a supplement volume. The image is a useful record of a subsistence practice that ended after dams flooded the falls in the 1950s.
| Created / published | c1910 March 11. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910. |
| Notes | J139773 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3013-09. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl. v. 8, pl. 102. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Subsistence activities--Washington (State)--1910. Tlakluit Indians--Subsistence activities--1910. Fishing--Washington (State)--1910. Fishing nets--Washington (State)--1910. Fishing weirs--Washington (State)--1910. Rivers--Washington (State)--1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123960 |
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