The Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy Franklin wrote about (and whom it is thought Smith had in mind when imagining his “savage” entrepreneurs) had a clear division of labor based on gender, age, and inclination. Individuals specialized in tasks like growing, harvesting, and processing maize, beans, and squash; hunting and trapping; weaving; house building; and the manufacture of tools. But they didn’t barter or trade the products of their efforts among one another.
