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therefore &quot;obliged to decline all gifts, and introduce regular 

 trading instead.&quot; (1. 1:179.) One Eskimo, who would get 

 rich quick in more southerly parts of the continent, &quot;noticed 

 that I liked to have neatly sewn clothes ; so he bought garments 

 from some of his friends and sold them to me at a large profit. 

 (1. 2:55.) 



If an Eskimo repents of a bargain, he has a right to return 

 the purchased article and take back his equivalent, even after 

 considerable time. (53 : 29 ; 16. 1 : 167 ; 43 : 111.) Another in 

 teresting trait is brought out by Holm s experience. He says, 

 &quot;When we had traded with one, the others regarded it as their 

 right, that we trade with them and give them the same as the 

 first. For instance, a man asked and received a piece of arrow- 

 iron for a piece of driftwood. Then another came with an old 

 board and asked for a like piece of iron. &quot;He explained that 

 they always gave people what they asked for.&quot; (30: 168.) A 

 curious trading custom is reported from Alaska. It is called 

 &quot;patukhtuk,&quot; and is described as follows: 



&quot;When a person wants to start one of these he takes some article into 

 the kashim [men s house] and gives it to the man with whom he wishes 

 to trade, saying at the same time, It is a patukhtuk. The other is 

 bound to receive it, and give in return some article of about equal value; 

 tne first man then brings in something else, and so they alternate until, 

 sometimes, two men will exchange nearly everything they originally pos 

 sessed; the man who received the first present being bound to continue 

 until the originator wishes to stop.&quot; (45: 309.) 



