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Elk skins, slaves, canoes, abalone shells, many hundred scores of raccoon skins, 

 sea-otter garments, marten garments, dancing-blankets, and all kinds of goods (231, 

 232). 



Elks and slaves and other goods (N 164). 



Elk skins, canoes, and slaves and all kinds of goods (N 186). 



In 1.171 it is implied that a white sea-otter skin is of great value. 



Copper plates were of very great value. In a note in 1.171 it is said 

 that a single copper was worth a large number of slaves, canoes, and 

 other kinds of property. 



Certain kinds of food are considered as unfit for chiefs. Mussels 

 are mentioned as cheap food (185). 



In descriptions of the wealth of people it is said that they had four 

 houses full of property (N 186). Two lonely women have two large 

 houses full of provisions, which they trade for property (1.81). 



The simple statement that persons become rich by selling meat 

 and other provisions is found (108, 242, 274, 1.81, 1.123, 1.171). It 

 is stated as particularly remarkable that a hunter becomes rich in a 

 foreign land (267). In one place it is said th.at the chief distributes 

 his food, and is given in return presents of skins, etc. (294). In one 

 case at least it is said not only that the hunter acquires meat, fat, 

 and skins of all kinds of animals, but that he also makes spoons of 

 mountain-goat horn and spoons and dippers of elk antler (244). On 

 274 the principal industries of the various tribes are mentioned, all 

 of which consisted in the manufacture of objects given in exchange 

 for food. 



In* these lists other kinds of property used for sacrifices are not 

 enumerated. These are particularly tobacco, red paint, anil sling- 

 stones (N 88); tobacco, tallow, and coppers (208), which are taken 

 along on canoe journeys. On a journey to supernatural beings, food, 

 coppers, eagle down, and red ocher are taken (308). In order to 

 propitiate a killer whale, tobacco, red paint, and sling-stones are 

 thrown backward from the canoe (N 92) ; and elk skins, ocher, and 

 eagle down are given away as offerings (241). See also p. 451. 



In other cases people become wealthy by their shamamstic art . for 

 which they are well paid ( 328) . 



A chief who has to pay for losses sustained in war gives in exchange 

 coppers, slaves, large canoes, elk skins, etc. (119). 



When canoes are sent on a visit, they take along as presents either 

 food (235) or property, such as coppers and slaves (256). A tribe 

 that make their escape after having been vanquished in war take 

 along all their property — coppers, elk skins, marten garments, etc. 

 (271). Buying and selling of goods are referred to a few times with- 

 out a special statement as to the character of the purchase medium. 

 Thus we read on 268 of the purchase of a canoe. 



