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Collection Summary
Collection: 2000-P-012 - Black Bear Hidatsa Fish Trap
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00001
Title: Closing the gate of the Hidatsa Fish Trap
Date: 08/1929
Creator: Reid, Russell,--1900-1967
Inscription/Marks: [caption] HIDATSA FISH TRAP Traps of this type were used in the Missouri River by the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Indians. When used the long cottonwood poles and the thatch work of sandbar willos are thrust in the mud in a bout three feet of water. The fish are enticed through the entrance by means of stale meat tied to a pole on the inside of the trap. When a suffiecient number of fish have entered the trap the door is carefully closed and the fish secured with the basket. This trap was made by Black Bear, an aged Hidatsa Indian of Van Hook, North Dakota.
Summary: Man in calico shirt and underpants with scarf tied around head wading into Missouri River and pulling two sides of vertical bunch of sticks together to trap fish.
Red ID: PH_I_126418 Image ID: 58718 Image Notes: 2000-P-012-00001

Collection: 2000-P-012 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Black Bear Hidatsa Fish Trap
Date: Circa 1925

Summary: Four photographs, taken by Russell Reid, showing the operation of a Hidatsa Fish Trap by Black Bear (Hidatsa). Fish trap was made by Black Bear (Hidatsa) and sold for $50 in August 1929 to the State Historical Society of North Dakota (SHSND 4370).

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