Flatheads & spooneys
Subtitle: fishing for a living in the Ohio River Valley
By: Jens Lund.
Series: The Ohio River Valley series
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Fishing -- Ohio River Valley -- Folklore.; Fishing villages -- Ohio River Valley -- History.; Ohio River Valley -- History.; Ohio River Valley -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: Flatheads and spooneys
Description: Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spooneys, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisherfolk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-193) and index.