The Great Beaded Iris Trade #1 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/8/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

One of Christopher Columbus's first acts upon reaching the Bahamas in 1492 was to offer glass beads to the Arawak Indians. Using glass beads to win Indian friendship was a prevalent custom in the days when England, France, Sweden, Holland, and Spain all vied for control of North American territories. The practice lasted through the American Revolution, when gift-giving gradually gave way to trading beads for fur.

Through the fur trade, glass beads had a significant effect on North American Indian life. Early explorers found the American continent teeming with wildlife and soon established a system in which horses, guns, alcohol, and other items were exchanged for the fur pelts so coveted in Europe. When glass beads were introduced as a trade item, they were widely sought after by Indians for their color and ease of use. One beaver skin was worth a six-foot string of small blue beads in Sault Sainte Marie in 1860, or one "bunch" of seed beads at Fort McPherson in the Canadian Northwest. The red bead known as "cornaline d'Aleppo" or "Hudson Bay beads" to traders in the north, carried an exchange value of six beads to one beaver skin. Now you too can trade beads.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ORNQ

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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