page_title: Klallam
section_title: Diet
hierarchical_section_title: Klallam / Culture / Diet
caption_attribution_description: English: Klallam men in western clothes on beach Clallam men on beach with the Shaker church in the background, Jamestown, Washington, ca.1903 CREATED/PUBLISHED United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma, ca.1903 NOTES Clallam men in western-style clothes on beach with white man writing in notebook; in background is a woman standing by crabtraps. In the background right, is the Shaker church, ca. 1900-1906. Photographer's reference number: 2563 SUBJECTS Group portraits--Washington (State) Clallam Indians--Structures Churches--Washington (State)--Jamestown Jamestown (Wash.) United States--Washington (State)--Jamestown Photographs REPRODUCTION NUMBER NA1120 REPOSITORY University of Washington Libraries SOURCE COLLECTION Albert Henry Barnes Collection no. 542 DIGITAL ID http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmlview.exe?CISOROOT=/loc&amp;CISOPTR=1190 American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Rights and Reproductions Copyright and Restrictions The following statement is made by the University of Washington, the lead institution for the consortium from whose collections the materials reproduced here are drawn. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the 1976 Copyright Act. [See section 107 of Chapter 1 of the Copyright Law of the United States of America.] Textual materials in this collection are either mounted with permission of copyright holders or are not protected by copyright as far as the consortium partners are aware. See the Copyright/Permissions Statement from the University of Washington Libraries. Pictorial materials digitized for the collection are drawn primarily from the holdings of the project partners: The University of Washington Libraries The Cheney Cowles Museum/Eastern Washington State Historical Society The Museum of History and Industry Also included are seven images from the Seattle Public Library and one from the Washington State Historical Society. These five institutions are unaware of any copyright in the images in this collection. The nature of historical archival photograph collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine. The owning repository would like to hear from anyone who may have additional information regarding any image found in this online collection. Images from the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest collection may be downloaded for noncommercial educational and research purposes. For permission to use a particular item for any other purposes, such as publishing, video production, exhibits, product presentations, interior design, advertising, or similar commercial purposes, you must send an inquiry to the owning repository. This is identified in the "Repository" field of the description for each item. Contact information for these repositories can be found on the Copyright/Permissions Statement from the University of Washington Libraries. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Availability of Reproductions Photographs in the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest collection are drawn from three different repositories: The University of Washington Libraries The Cheney Cowles Museum/Eastern Washington State Historical Society The Museum of History and Industry A reproduction of a photograph may be ordered from the institution owning the original. The owning institution is identified in the "Repository" field of the description for each photograph. Please record the caption and the reproduction (negative) number for the item before requesting a reproduction. Contact information for the various repositories can be found in How to Order Photographic Reproductions from the University of Washington Libraries. For Further Information Contact the appropriate repository institution. Contact information is available from the University of Washington.
context_page_description: Klallam refers to four related indigenous Native American/First Nations communities from the Pacific Northwest of North America. The Klallam culture is classified ethnographically and linguistically in the Coast Salish subgroup. Two Klallam bands live on the Olympic Peninsula and one on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state, and one is based at Becher Bay on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
context_section_description: The lands, rivers, marine waters, and beaches in Klallam territory provided an abundant, year-round supply of food. Strategic intertribal marriages and agreements also allowed them permission to hunt or forage outside their homeland. Though their diet included large and small land game, sea fowl, and shellfish, the most important source of food was  fish. Salmon still plays a significant nutritional and spiritual role in the Klallam culture.
  The Klallam fished year round using a variety of tools and techniques particular to the species, location, and season. They were known to use traps, trolling, gillnets, spears, rakes, dip nets, and holes dug in the beach. Specific locations were known to produce certain fishes at the right time of year, and special implements and skills were employed for a successful catch.
caption: Klallam men on beach with the Shaker church in the background, Jamestown, Washington, ca. 1903
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