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Yelm Jim’s fishing weir at Puyallup Indian Reservation

A black and white photograph of a fishing weir structure, made of long wooden sticks arranged in a triangle formation across a wooden bridge stretching across a river with two men standing on the bridge structure.

Mitchell, 1885

This photograph, dated to 1885 from the State Library Photograph Collection depicts above-water fishing weirs on the Puyallup Indian Reservation in Washington.

Similar constructions have been used by Indigenous communities during the pre-settlement era in Agincourt, and were the primary method that Indigenous communities captured fish in the region.