Iroquois Fish Weir on the Eel River, Wabash County, Indiana
Large stone V - shaped Eel weir located in Wabash county, on the Eel River
View of the fish weir from the bridge.
The end of the fish weir has this chute where the Eel clkuld have been scooped up in baskets.
Contact-era accounts attest to the use of weirs by the various nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Beauchamp (1900:133) mentions that the Onondagas and Oneidas employed eel weirs (of an indeterminate type) on the Onondaga River at Caughdenoy. He claims that "(e)arly travelers described these," although he provides no references. He may be referring to the account of Dablon, a Jesuit missionary to the Oneida, who wrote in 1670: "Our savages construct their dams and sluices so well, that they catch at the same time the Eels, that descend, and the Salmon, that always ascends" .
Large stone V - shaped Eel weir located in Wabash county, on the Eel River
View of the fish weir from the bridge.
The end of the fish weir has this chute where the Eel clkuld have been scooped up in baskets.