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SHONTO: ROLE OF NAVAHO TRADER 



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COMMUNITY 



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PRIMARY AND DIRECT CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION 

 SECONDARY AND ANCILLARY CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION 

 USUAL DIRECTION OF COMMUNICATION 



Chart K. — Channels and directions of contact between and among Shonto 

 Navahos and contact institutions. 



is sometimes little to choose between one and another. Thanks to 

 this set of conditions, the relations of any contact institution within 

 its own sociocultural system are not necessarily dictated and re- 

 stricted by its "charter" or operational sanction. They may be ex- 

 tended and ramified enormously as a result purely of its effectiveness 

 as a channel of indirect cross-cultural communication. 



It is apparent, as diagrammed in charts J and K, that all of the 

 contact institutions within Shonto community have, to varying de- 

 grees, a secondary function as channels of communication between 



