Matt Pearson wrote:
>> > Tokana used to have an onomatopoetic word for cat, namely "miua"
>> > [miwa], but then I banished cats, and so the word no longer exists.
Boo. Hiss. (from Roger, Ozzie, PT, Harley and Horrible)
The native Americans in our timeline
>didn't domesticate cats, and so neither did the Tokana.
It is well known that the cat did not allow itself to be domesticated until
humans had invented the door.
If so, then perhaps the Tokana could
>have acquired cats (and even pigs or horses) from East Asia. But somehow I
>don't think that's really feasible. I can't think of any economic benefit
the
>East Asian traders might have had in bringing cats or pigs or horses on the
long
>boat journey along the northern Pacific rim.
Unless I'm mistaken, the Polynesians managed to include pigs on their
voyages of settlement.