And if you got really hungry, one could chew on it like deer jerky, right?
> Another fun by-product of eels is that their skin can be cured and works
> great as an elastic hair-tie. Nantucket whale crews learned that trick
from
> the Tomcod Indians on Nantucket.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL
>
> >From: Christopher Scharpf <ichthos_at_charm.net>
> >Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> >To: NANFA Mailing List <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> >Subject: Re: NANFA-- upsetting the ecology
> >Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 09:40:02 -0400
> >
> > > And during my recent visit to Ohio I went to Clifton Gorge
> > >Nature Preserve near Dayton. A sign there mentioned that the Miami
> >Indians
> > >used crushed walnuts or buckeyes (I forget which, maybe neither) or
their
> > >hulls to herd fish.
> >
> >This reminds me of the Penobscot Indians of Maine, who formed large
eeling
> >parties and stunned eels by stirrng a mile-long stretch of water with a
> >poison
> >derived from pokeberry and Indian turnip root. Not only was this poison
> >fatal to
> >eels, but it also caused painful skin inflammations among the Indians.
> >Apparently, the pain was worth it. Within a half hour or so, the stream
was
> >littered with the bodies of dead or dying eels. Indians smoked their eels
> >and
> >used the vertebrae for stock in corn soup.
> >
> >
> >Chris Scharpf
> >Baltimore
>
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