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Nancy J. Turner, Dawn C. Loewen, The Original "Free Trade": Exchange of Botanical Products and Associated Plant Knowledge in Northwestern North America, Anthropologica, Vol. 40, No. 1, L'Ethnobiologie / Ethnobiology (1998), pp. 49-70
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