Indian shop

Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the room in a trading post (def. 1) where the actual bartering takes place.

Quotations

1799

Took an inventory of all the goods remaining in the Indian shop, and afterward suspended them in the garret. . . .

1921

After leaving the Indian shop, the hunter returned to his camp to talk matters over with Amik and the women.

1934

. . . I might look them over while they were getting their supplies in the Indian shop. . . .