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Chaet D. — Circulation of cash, commodities, and merchandise at wholesale and 

 retail levels at Shonto Trading Post. 



tourists who visit the trading post during the summer months. Most 

 minor crafts must also be sold in this way, since little market for 

 Navaho pottery, pitch bottles, and the like exists outside the 

 reservation. 



Hides find a steady market — sufficiently so that most traders pay 

 cash for them as an act of good will, since their total annual value 

 is negligible. The entire output of hides from the Navaho Keserva- 



