O/P term for one thousand

[Rankin, Robert L]

Yes, that's what Mrs. Rowe said.  The Kaw term for 'thousand' is /z^aN kkoge/ literally 'wooden box'.  Silver dollars were shipped from the treasury in wooden crates of 1000.
 
Bob

> This is purely anecdotal, but some of you word sleuths out there might be
able to pursue it.  Somewhere, somehow, once upon a time I heard that the
Native American words for 'thousand' often had something to do with cash
boxes in which silver dollars (or maybe gold pieces) were shipped.  If
that's true, using 'box' for 1000 might have developed that way.