Ethnology of the Pacific Coast 

 supernatural being. Some of these groups are 

 recognized as very aristocratic. On the other hand 

 absolute slavery was, until just recently, a well rec- 

 ognized institution. Capture in war and inability to 



Figure 19 



settle debts rendered a man a mere chattel. The lot 

 of very poor people, even if free, was scarcely better. 

 Aside from the accident of birth, an individuaPs 

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