Above: a beautiful woman's dress from the area of \u200b\u200bPlateau
along with a rich pair of earrings Dentalium
in trade trade among the tribes that lived in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Great Plains and tribes that inhabited the North Western area of \u200b\u200bthe United States considered as one of the most valuable assets was the shell of Dentalium. The Dentalium is a mollusk that lives in the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean. Because of its shape, which was likely to be used as a decorative element to create adornments or clothing, this sort of mollusc was being tightened trade since prehistoric times, trade in which the inhabitants of the Plains were willing to "pay "high prices for a few of these shells. Many of the inhabitants of the Plains had never gone through the chain of the Rocky Mountains and never seen the sea. Speaking then of the area of origin of these ornaments were limited to saying that they were "beyond the mountains." The value of barter than a handful of the top 800 dental was set at a good horse and again around 1880 a merchant, who had bought a dress entirely covered by these Indian women cochiglie, derived from the sale of half of them ( that had failed to unpick from the garment) the astronomical sum of $ 4,000 for the period.
my pair of earrings made of rawhide dividers
abalone shells of Dentalium and
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