Division of labor began with the invention of fire-making, and it was a division of labor based upon sex. The woman stayed by the fire to keep it alive while the man went to the field or the forest for game. The world's industrialism and militancy began then and there. Man has been cunning in devising means of killing beast and his fellowman - he ...
Otis Tufton Mason, the founder of the Anthropologist Society of Washington, details the history of the archery tools used by the native peoples throughout the North American continent. Hundreds of precise line drawings showcase the many varieties of bows, arrows, and quivers they crafted, and beautifully rendered images display tools and materials ...
Exhaustive, standard survey of baskets and their makers, Alaska to South America. Coiled and woven baskets, materials, techniques, uses in cooking, agriculture, war, mortuary customs, much more. 460 illus.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Alaska. Almost everywhere they utilised fire only in the lamp-stove. Forests being absent, and even drift-wood being scarce, their only resource has been to burn the ...
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