During Smokehouse Days,
our homes had two main purposes: to provide us with a place to live, but also a place to smoke our salmon. For some families, people slept in the same structure as where the salmon was smoked; other families had two structures for these two functions. Many people remember partitions to separate living spaces, and some people slept on bunks or elevated platforms. All Elders remember with huge fondness their time spent in their Húy̓at homes.
Smokehouses
Ed Martin Sr.’s describing his family’s smokehouse at Húy̓at in an interview with Gíƛa Elroy White for his stone fish trap research in 2004.
Gíƛa Elroy White’s sketch of Ed Martin Sr.’s Húy̓at smokehouse, as described in 2004 in that same interview. Elroy recalls that Ed laughed when he saw how small he drew the three fires.
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