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This went on, Merk explains, until the otter was so tired, he could barely dive, when all the Indians shot arrows at him. The fur pelt went to the man whose arrow lodged closest to the otter...
Another annual event is the lecture by Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, which has been dubbed Otter Catching by his students...
Merk gives the valuable for of the sea otter as a reason why white men wanted to open up the Oregon territory, and then procedes to explain how the Indians used to catch this elusive creature...
...band of them in their kayaks, he says, would form a circle about the sleeping otter, and shout and beat the water with their paddles. The otter would awake, dive under, and the Indians would widen the circle. When the animal reappeared, they shouted again, under went the otter, and the Indians closed in once more...