524 SEMINOLE INDIANS OF FLORIDA. 
at least at the Big Cypress Swamp settlement, is twenty-five cents, 
which they call ‘‘ Kan-cat-ka-hum-kin” (literally, ‘‘one mark on the 
ground”), At Miami a trader keeps his accounts with the Indians in 
single marks or pencil strokes, For example, an Indian brings to him 
buck skins, for which the trader allows twelve “chalks.” The Indian, 
not wishing then to purchase anything, receives a piece of paper marked 
in this way: 
“TIITI-I1II-I111. 
J. W. E. owes Little Tiger $3.” 
At his next visit the Indian may buy five “marks” worth of goods 
The trader then takes the paper and returns it to Little Tiger changed 
as follows: 
“TIII-III. 
J. W. E. owes Little Tiger 
$1.75.” 
Thus the account is kept until all the “marks” are crossed off, when 
the trader takes the paper into his own possession. The value of the 
purchases made at Miami by the Indians, I was informed, is annually 
about $2,000. This is, however, an amount larger than would be the 
average for the rest of the tribe, for the Miami Indians do a considera- 
ble business in the barter and sale of ornamental plumage. 
What the primitive standard of value among the Seminole was is 
suggested to me by their word for money, “Teat-to Ko-na-wa.” ‘Ko- 
na-wa” means beads, and “Teat-to,” while it is the name for iron and 
metal, is also the name for stone. ‘Tcat-to” probably originally meant 
stone. Teat-to Ko-na-wa (i. e., stone beads) was, then, the primitive 
money. With ‘ Hat-ki,” or white, added, the word means silver; with 
‘‘La ni,” or yellow, added, it means gold. For greenbacks they use the 
words ‘Nak-ho-tsi Teat-to Ko-na-wa,” which is, literally, “‘paper stone 
beads.” 
Their methods of measuring are now, probably, those of the white 
man. I questioned my respondent closely, but could gain no light upon 
the terms he used as equivalents for our measurements. 
DIVISIONS OF TIME. 
I also gained but little knowledge of their divisions of time. They 
have the year, the name for which is the same as that used for sum- 
mer, and in their year are twelve months, designated, respectively : 
1, Gla-fiits-u-tsi, Little Winter. 7. Hai-yu-tsi. 
2. Ho-ta-li-ha-si, Wind Moon. 8. Hai-yu-tsi-glak-o. 
3. Ho-ta-li-ha-si-glak-o, Big Wind Moon. 9, O-ta-wis-ku-tsi. 
4. Ki-ha-su-tsi, Little Mulberry Moon. 10. O-ta-wits-ka-¢lak-o. 
5. Ki-ha-si-glak-o, Big Mulberry Moon. 11. I-ho-li. 
6, Ka-teo-ha-si. 12. Cla-fo-glak-o, Big Winter. 

