. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. shing floors, and saving the rancheros thenoisome duty of removing the carcasses of animals dead by disease oraccident; and as their indolence increased under the easy regime, theygrew into more and more open thievery. By no means deficient inshrewdness and cunning, they adopted numberless devices for impos-ing on the credulity of the majordomo and other officials of the coin-like tokens of stamped copper were used in the transactionsof the rancho as equivalents of labor, the Seri i
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. shing floors, and saving the rancheros thenoisome duty of removing the carcasses of animals dead by disease oraccident; and as their indolence increased under the easy regime, theygrew into more and more open thievery. By no means deficient inshrewdness and cunning, they adopted numberless devices for impos-ing on the credulity of the majordomo and other officials of the coin-like tokens of stamped copper were used in the transactionsof the rancho as equivalents of labor, the Seri ingeniously obtainedsheet copper by stealth or barter, systematically counterfeited thetokens, and exchanged them for supplies at the rancho store; it was afavorite trick to surreptitiously break the neck or a leg of a horse, cosv,or burro, and report finding the dead or crippled animal, at the sametime begging for the carcass; and, whenever opportunity ottered, theyslyly slaughtered a head of stock, consumed it to the hoofs and horns BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. VII.
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