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Generated watercolor and graphite illustration based on the 1935 source and written account of a Nuxalk cedar-plank eulachon ripening bin; not the archival photograph or a construction plan.
Built structures

Nuxalk eulachon ripening bin

A 2022 study describes Nuxalk families using large, covered cedar-plank bins lined with western redcedar boughs to ripen eulachon beside the river. The later grease-rendering box is a separate structure.

Terraces, platforms and stands
Bella Coola Valley (Nuxalk Nation)
Generated historical illustration of an open-sided roofed rack holding opened salmon strips to wind-dry; this is a generic depiction of the Stó:lō Fraser Canyon description, not a specific or universal design.
Built structures

Fraser Canyon salmon wind-drying racks

Stó:lō teaching materials describe roofed racks in the exposed Fraser Canyon for wind-drying salmon. Xwísten describes a separate living St’át’imc practice at Bridge River; these sources do not establish one shared rack design.

Terraces, platforms and stands
Fraser Canyon
Historical illustration of split salted cod laid directly on a raised wooden Newfoundland flake; an editorial reconstruction, not a photograph or construction plan.
Built structures

Flake (fish-drying structure)

A Newfoundland flake was an open wooden platform where split, salted cod was laid in the sun to dry. It belongs to the historic coastal fishery, not to smokehouses.

Terraces, platforms and stands
Newfoundland
Interpretive ink-and-watercolor illustration of salmon bellies and thin strips hanging on cedar sticks inside one reported Somass River family smokehouse arrangement.
Built structures

Nuu-chah-nulth family smokehouse

A household smokehouse used for salmon by named Tseshaht and Hesquiaht families near the Somass River. A 2019 report records different supports and smoking outcomes; it gives no standard building plan.

Smokehouses and smoke rooms
Port Alberni
Historical cutaway illustration of the Willie Niles boucanière, with its wood-frame gabled form, ridge smoke opening, fish-bearing cannes and floor fires; an editorial reconstruction, not a photograph or building plan.
Built structures

Acadian boucanière

A Cap-Pelé boucanière is an Acadian herring-smoking building. The documented Willie Niles example is a one-storey wood-frame structure with a ridge smoke vent and interior bays for hanging fish-bearing cannes.

Smokehouses and smoke rooms
Cap-Pelé
Watercolor-and-ink illustration of a separate shallow soapstone qulliq lamp and rectangular soapstone cooking pot, based on inspected museum references.
Equipment

Qulliq and ukkusik

A qulliq oil lamp and a separate ukkusik cooking pot form an Inuit heat-processing pair. Sources document soapstone forms, animal-oil lighting and cooking uses, and museum objects from the Eastern Arctic.

Lamps and burners
Canada
Generated editorial illustration of a generic built-in steam or combi oven with its glass door open, showing metal racks and a side water reservoir as one possible design; not a depiction of a specific manufacturer or fermentation batch.
Equipment

Steam or combi oven

A steam oven cooks with water vapour; a combi oven pairs steam with circulating dry heat. Their modes and temperature controls differ by model, so a documented yogurt programme cannot be assumed for every oven.

All-in-one appliances
Australia
Illustrative Cook & Carry-style manual slow cooker with an oval stoneware crock, separate electric heating base, removed lid and open wire transport locks. The neutral geometric finish does not reproduce or verify the SCCPVL500FB French Bull pattern.
Equipment

Crock-Pot SCCPVL500FB

The SCCPVL500FB is listed by Crock-Pot as a French Bull-pattern Cook & Carry manual slow cooker. Its stoneware crock and heated base cook on Low or High; the WARM setting is only for already-cooked food, not fermentation or cooking.

All-in-one appliances
Canada
Generated documentary-style image of an unbranded digital food probe thermometer inserted into a loaf on a metal tray, with the display visible.
Equipment

Food probe thermometer

A probe thermometer measures the temperature of food at its sensing tip. It answers a different question from a kettle, oven or water-bath display, and from a pH meter.

Instruments
British Columbia
A dark countertop Drinkmate-style carbonator with a clear bottle attached and a blue CO₂ cylinder standing beside it.
Equipment

Drinkmate carbonation system

Drinkmate’s Fizz Infuser lets its countertop carbonators add carbon dioxide to cold drinks directly, with a controlled release valve for foamy liquids. Models and bottle systems vary; a 2025 recall applies to specific one-litre bottles.

beverage-carbonators
United States
Cutaway illustration of a wooden Nuxalk eulachon rendering box with a metal bottom above its documented fire trench.
Equipment

Eulachon rendering box

A separate cooking box heats ripened eulachon so grease rises for skimming. Nuxalk sources describe wooden or cedar sides, a metal bottom and, in one setup, a fire trench beneath the box.

Kettles, coppers and boilers
Bella Coola River
Watercolor illustration of the broad, worn oval clay Rocky Cree lamp shown as a damaged museum artifact, based on the Manitoba Museum photograph.
Equipment · Historical object

Ceramic cooking lamp

A Rocky Cree clay lamp dated approximately 1200–1500 is recorded from Southern Indian Lake, northern Manitoba. The Manitoba Museum links this lamp tradition to cooking, drying, heating and lighting lodges.

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Lamps and burners
Southern Indian Lake area, northern Manitoba
Equipment

Puurtaq skin bag

Puurtaq is a sewn skin bag documented as a vessel for igunaq, the ageing of marine-mammal meat and fat in Inuit foodways. Nunavik research describes skin pouches alongside other containers; the pouch does not guarantee food safety.

Skins and bladders
Nunavik