Think I posted this once bfr can't remember..pls excuse if you have seen
it.
     I have a carved, semi-rectangular wooden bowl that was used by
Indians of the US and Canadian Northwest.  It was used to mix salmon
with fat..[bear grease/other fat] before eating.

        I can really understand that after some cold, rainy, dark days
in that area...and that was **Summertime**!!!

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C. Loon wrote:
>
> > The animals hunted by the Cree (found around Hudsons Bay) included moose,
> > bear, ducks, geese and many other kinds of seabirds,  all very high in
> > fat.  Moose was the preferred meat for pemmican because of its high fat
> > level.
>
> What % of fat do you consider as high fat? Moose is a rather lean meat,
> especially in comparison to bear or beaver or muskrat. I will venture a
> guess and say that moose was used most often for pemmican because:
> 1. it dries well in long, easy to hang strips
> 2. it is hunted in the fall, just as the food supply is getting short.
>
> I do, however, see a lot of what you call "a hunter's taste for fatty
> meat". The Elders I know have a particular fondness for pure bear grease -
> I've seen them eat it as a treat. Most younger Cree (read: not raised in
> the bush)  find the taste of bear and beaver unpleasant.
>
> > Trying to generalize about fat consumption based on a few populations of
> > HGs who have been driven into undesirable areas by civilization in not a
> > good way to how man fitted into his place with the rest of the
> > Pleistocene mega-fauna.
>
> Ray, are you including the Hudson Bay Cree as HGs who have been driven
> into an "undesirable" area by civilization?
>
> Cheyenne