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Originally Posted by David
Wayne, i'm not sure that you are posting this on the right thread...
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the small photo next to the horn refers to the price of a musket to the maori at various time frames, in pigs ansd th equivalent in baskets of potatoes, so i was putting them into a modern context and reference to it's modern equivalent. the op evidently thought that was relevant and included it.
a musket and it's accoutrements, including ammnunition and devices used to carry it, powder, shot, spare flints, and later percussion caps were also expensive items that must be traded for, embellished, decorated, captured, retraded, etc.