Abstract

This chapter elaborates about reindeer and cattle standard in Asiatic Russia. The entire economy of many tribes of Northern Siberia is based on the domesticated reindeer. From time to time certain trade goods assume such a degree of popularity among the natives that they become practically universal media of exchange in their community. Cattle was, until comparatively recently, the chief currency of the Chefsurs in Caucasia. The inhabitants of the Darwaz district are said to have used cakes made of dried mulberries as their unit of account and also to some extent as their medium of exchange. Mulberries constituted their staple food and it was almost their sole means of subsistence. They bought with this currency rough matting and sheep's skins, and even their taxes were paid with it.

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