Note (return) — SEX AND PRIMITIVE INDUSTRY
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Among the Spokanes "all household goods are considered as the wife's property."178 The stores of roots and berries laid up by the Salish women for a time of scarcity "are looked upon as belonging to them personally, and their husbands will not touch them without having previously obtained their permission."179 Among the Menomini a woman in good circumstances would possess as many as from 1,200 to 1,500 birch-bark vessels, and all of these would be in use during the season of sugar-making.180 In the New Mexican pueblo,