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Show INTERVIEW: Mabel Dry and Kay Fowler August 8, 1967 Page 19 Indian woman over to Kanab. When they used to have money in change they have some kind of a thing about this big for fifty cents and they used to have little things like that and mark fifty cents on it. And some of the white ladies give 'um that kind and she thought it was something and she throw them away. F: She didn't think they were worth anything? D: She thought they wasn't worth anything, look like something but she knows the silver, that's all she knew. Some other people-some other Indian ladies-told her, 'Why did you throw that money away? You better go hunt for it again.' So she went over there and found them again. She didn't know what was that. It was in quarters and fifty cents and dimes and nickels and they used to have that kind of a money. The people didn't know what it is. F: Did people know what money was by the time the reservation was established here? D: Yes, they knew it. I think they know it before. After they came out of that canyon the white people been telling them what it is. F: I see. Did they know how much to spend on various things or would the trader say? D: They just trade, I guess. F: Oh, did they used to carry purses and things with their money |
