Trade with the Tlingit was carried on long before the early 1800’s when the fur trade began. The Southern Tutchone offered goat wool, yellow lichen for dying blankets, tanned hides, ground squirrel robes, spruce gum and raw copper. In return the Tlingit traded seaweed, grease from eulachon (a kind of fish), spruce root baskets, cedar boxes, dried clams, obsidian, crushed clamshells, and, from tribes farther south, abalone and dentalia shell for jewelry.