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youth of the plains, aided by his relatives, purchased his bride out- 
right with horses, furs, and other gifts, but in eastern and northern 
Canada he generally served her parents for a year (or until the birth 
of the first child), presenting them with all the products of his hunt- 
31K)6y 
Intei-ior Salisli gill Avoariiig tlie fir'l>oughs and goat’fi 
wool lilniikf't that signify her adolescence. (I*hoio hy 
Jiimes Tv it.) 
ing during that period.^ The Indians on the Pacific coast, with their 
passionate fondness for ceremonies and trade, converted marriage 
into a kind of commercial transaction. The husband bought his wife 
1 .A.S Jacob se^^■c(l I.aban for I, call and afterwards for Racliel. 
