nak-ho-tsi

Updated: August 20, 2026

For greenbacks they use the words “Nak-ho-tsi Tcat-to Ko-na-wa,” which is, literally, “paper stone beads.” As a guide towards a knowledge of the primitive manner of counting the method used by an old man in his intercourse with me will serve. He wished to count eight.

Clay MacCauley - The Seminole Indians of Florida: Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532