Note 1059 — IX THE REGULATION OF NUMBERS AMONG PRIMITIVE RACES

‘Captain Cook found among the Ahts “very strict notions of their having a right to the exclusive property of everything that their country produces”, so that they claimed pay for even wood, water, and grass. The limits of their tribal property are very clearly defined, but individuals rarely claim any property in land’ (Bancroft, loc. cit., vol. i, p. 191). See also Dellenbaugh, North Americans, pp. 410 ff.