Like Beads On a String: a Culture History of Seminole Indians in North Peninsular Florida
Like Beads On a String: a Culture History of Seminole Indians in North Peninsular Florida
Weisman, Brent Richards
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Yonge Library of Florida History, Gainesville, under "Tariff For Trade With the Creek Nation, Pensacola, June 1, 1784"). A pound of skins equals 18 ounces, and the measures of cloth are in Spanish yards. Figuring only those items that appear both on the trade list and with the burial, we can estimate that this individual was buried with the trade equivalent of at least 34 lbs. of skins, although this figure is undoubtedly conservative. The skin trade was not the only enterprise open to the Semi...nole entrepreneur. After the demise of the British plantation system and their retrocession of Florida to Spain in 1783, there developed a real need for an interior breadbasket to provide food for the Spanish colonists. Coinciding with this need was the move just north and east of Tampa Bay of a new wave of Muskogee-speaking Upper Creek settlers (Swanton 1922:403). In this region of fertile, well-drained soils and ample savanna lands, a series of 106 Table 4. Trade items and their value in skins, lbs.
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