![]() ![]() The Tek’weidi are a clan of the Wolf/Eagle moiety whose primary crest is the brown or grizzly bear. The Tlingit have several oral traditions about learning to create and use intertidal fish traps to capture salmon. Fish trap ownership, tenure and management authority was vested in a clan or house leader who took responsibility for sustaining the return of salmon to the stream under his or her jurisdiction (Langdon 2006a). Most archaeological accounts suggest a falling sea level from considerably higher level stabilizing near current levels by 5-6000bp (Moss et al 2016).īrief mention is made of Tlingit intertidal salmon fish traps in de Laguna (1960) and Emmons (1990). Sea level changes since the period of earliest occupation of southeast Alaska (Ground Hog Bay) have drastically altered the land-sea interface thus moving the intertidal zone significantly over this period (Carlson and Baichtal 2015, Putnam and Greiser 1993). Archeological evidence of human presence in proximity to salmon spawning rivers is shown by the Thorne River site dated to 8750bp – no fish traps or evidence of salmon use has been obtained from that site. ![]() A case can be made for Tlingit presence dating to the earliest appearance of human populations but a much stronger case can be made for their presence by 6000 BP through linguistic and artifactual (spruce root basketry) evidence. They may have been invented by the Tlingit or possibly Eyak or another unknown early population. It is not known who the innovators of intertidal fish traps were in southeast Alaska.
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