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Interview with Bill Godwin, Barr'd Islands - Part 3
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| Descriptive Title | Interview with Bill Godwin, Barr'd Islands - Part 3 |
| Category | Work
Social beliefs, practices and customs
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| Topic | Cod fishing
Fishers
Commercial fishing
Fishes
Fishing equipment
Fishing nets
Fishing boats
Knives (cutting tools)
Folk beliefs
Luck
Salt-curing
Personal experience narratives
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| Keywords | Snubbies (codfish)
Haddock
Cod filleting
Cod liver oil
Codfish
Fish processing
Fishing stages
Flakes
Salt cod
Split cod
Splitting knives
Splitting tables
Stageheads
Trap skiffs
Trawlers
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| Person as Topic | Godwin, Bill
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| Description | Bill Godwin continues to discuss his life in Barr'd Islands; discusses various folk practices and beliefs (signs of good or bad luck, dots painted on doors); feeding dogs and pigs; fishing and processing the fish (cod liver oil; salting; drying; preventing flies, maggots); barter system; grading of fish (three grades: West Indies; Madeira; choice). |
| Date | 1989-11-10 |
| Collector | Pocius, Gerald L.
Ferguson, Mark
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| Informant | Godwin, Bill
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| Location Depicted/Discussed | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Fogo Island--Barr'd Islands |
| Relation | Continues: ICHFP00314 (Interview with Bill Godwin, Barr'd Islands, Part 2); Continued by: ICHFP00316 (Interview with Bill Godwin, Barr'd Islands, Part 4) |
| Format | Audio/wma |
| Extent | 31:21 minutes |
| Type | Sound |
| Resource Type | Audio |
| Identifier | ICHFP00315 |
| Language | Eng |
| Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Folklore and Language Archive. Acc. No 97-881 |
| Collection | Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory - Central Newfoundland |
| Log | 00:35 Snubby, put 'em on a string for good luck -- 00:55 Haddock are bad luck "Got the devil's fingers in its side." -- 01:05 They'd stab it and throw it overboard. -- 01:20 Also bad luck, "Putting out a cod trap on a Friday." -- 01:40 "A snubby is just a cod fish with a little crooked nose." -- 01:50 Hung up inside, not outside -- 02:00 Give 'em to the dog in the spring, dip 'em down in a blubber barrel -- 03:05 Floury water for the pigs, lumps -- 03:45 Fish tails or seal flipper hanging -- 04:30 White dots on the doors -- 05:00 Summer spent on the stage, life back then -- 05:30 Flour, hard bread, loose tea, everything bought at one time -- 06:10 Father was 27 years old before he saw any money -- 06:55 Different grades of fish: West Indies (college?), Medeira or tom cods (?) (number two), and number one = choice fish -- 07:30 Number two fish - maybe blood spot, or knife turned too fast -- 08:10 Worst fish - rain on it, or not enough salt, bone tearing out -- 09:15 Number one - beautiful fish - smooth, clean, no blood, properly split -- 09:50 Dad would average 500 to 600 quintals of fish a trapping season -- 10:35 Story about travelling with father in December by boat -- 11:10 Quality/quantity of fish -- 11:40 One throw of salt -- 12:00 In the pound for a week -- 12:15 Mother worked and then cared for four kids -- 13:05 Knowing how much salt to put on exactly, cleaning the stage, flies -- 13:45 Cleaning off the salt -- 14:25 Time spent on the green boughs or faggots, depending on the weather -- 14:30 Protecting the fish, boughs, seal pelts, bark, clapboard, little houses -- 16:10 Water-rocks (?) fish, drying fish -- 17:00 How many fish to a faggot - 100 to 200 -- 17:30 Fish from stage to store. Fish shipped on a blowy day. -- 18:20 When salt fish went out, but it is still around a bit -- 18:35 Walking through the process of selling fish today -- 19:55 Gill nets, trawls, salmon net, makes four or five thousand dollars in lobsters -- 20:30 Herring for bait -- 20:35 Do you wanna buy some cod? -- 21:05 "He had a bad year." -- 21:25 Long-runner -- 21:40 Trap-skiff -- 21:55 Personal history, traps, story about fishing with his sons, falling over the side -- 24:30 Trawls -- 25:50 Five-foot-long rat -- 26:25 Bait: herring, squid, mackerel (the best) -- 27:55 Scallops -- 28:30 Crab -- 29:10 Long-liners [Mr. Lewis drops in for a visit] -- 29:50 Discussion about who has good stories, who should be talked to, who has been talked to -- 30:30 Story about dogfish |
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