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10. When I was teaching in New Providence, N.J., we took the kids on field trips to the Delaware River.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 11:23 PM

Mar 2018

We would find net sinkers. These were stones that were worked and fitted around vines. Those vines would grow for only a few months and then be twisted around other vines to make nets to trap shad fish as they traveled up the Delaware to spawn.

The net sinker stones would be on the bottom of the tangle of vines.

We always found a couple of net sinkers. The ax handles were rare. We would also find hide scrapers.

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So unexpected. The person who thought that one up must have been so pleased when it worked! Judi Lynn Mar 2018 #9

When I was teaching in New Providence, N.J., we took the kids on field trips to the Delaware River. 3Hotdogs Mar 2018 #10

Judi, I doubt it was one person who thought it up. Nitram Mar 2018 #13