Bill,
The Hudson Bay Co. didn't trade south of the border to the best of my
knowledge. As with all things, the specific patterns have to take into
account such specific patterns: e.g., the concrete instance of articulation.
Also, the Kwakiutl system of sub-lineages which allowed the incredible
proliferation of the "crests" whose display or transmission was the putative
object of the potlatch didn't exist with the tribes around the Puget Sound,
to the best of my knowledge. These of coursse being factors internal. A
good comparison that I know of is the Tlingit potlatch (southern Alaska)
which was performed at the time of funeral ceremonies to denote a totally
different type of succession of symbolic goods. Since this wasn't
associated to the matrimonial domain and hence more structurally fixed, the
potlatch underwent almost no transformation at all.
Paul H. Dillon
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Barowy <wbarowy@lesley.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: Boris the spider (creepy, crawly)
> That's a very interesting situation Paul, and will get my attention. by
the way, I picked up a copy of a treaty at the natural history museum in
tacoma a few years ago. the treaty divided the lands around the areas it
seems just south of seattle, and limited where the puyallup, nisqualy, etc.
peoples could live and go, from which lots of conflict followed. I've spent
some time teaching in that area.
>
> As it turns out a copy is online:
> http://www.councilfire.com/treaty/treat275.htm
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