stagehead

Some women helped the men prong the fish from boat to stagehead.

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But these constructs of female respectability did not easily insinuate themselves into Irish plebeian culture on the southern Avalon, where women had played such a significant role in community formation, where women held property and inhabited public spaces such as courthouse and stagehead, where they had a joint custodial role in terms of culture and the spiritual life of their communities, and where they played vital roles in subsistence and the production of saltfish for the marketplace.

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