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demonstrates that although those businesses are Indian-operated, the 

 entrepreneurs are seldom fullbloods. 



Table 4 illustrates these data. The mean for these figures is ^%i, 

 the median is ^%i, and the mode is %i. Mean averages notwithstand- 

 ing, these figures indicate that the greatest number of businesses are 

 owned by people of Ke Indian inheritance. 



Table 4 does not reveal the kinds of businesses which are being 

 operated by people with variations in Indian inheritance. These data 

 are illustrated in table 5. The fact that there is a difference in totals 

 between the two sets of data is a result of the number of licenses held 

 by any one person, for a license must be obtained for every enterprise, 

 even though the same person may run all of them. Among the li- 

 censes for 1960, for instance, six were issued to one woman of jia inheri- 

 tance and four to a man of % inheritance. 



1 Data secured from Agency Office, July 1960. 



2 Of these, one is an Indian woman married to a White man. 

 ' Of ttiis group, one is subleased to a Wiiite man. 



* One of this group is married to a White man, a second is in partnership with a White man. 

 ' This is an Indian woman married to a White man who operates a small store In Big Cove. 



The range in the size of these businesses is great. The taxi serv- 

 ice involves no more than the ownership of a vehicle. The net income 

 from this type of operation is low, although taxi owners do not pay the 

 3 percent levy to the tribe as the others do. On the other hand, the 

 gross income figures reported for two of the larger operations for 1959 

 were $307,131.35 and $96,220.78. 



Associated with the tourist industry, but separate from it in the 

 technical sense, are crafts. Bead work, basketmaking, and wood- 

 carving are the main ones. Estimates of incomes derived from these 

 crafts are difiicult to make, for much depends upon the inclination 

 of the individual. Crafts are sold either to the QuaUa Cooperative 

 or to the individual craft shops. Some are taken over to Asheville 

 and Gatlinburg. In addition to the wholesale price for their work, 



