1656 The Cornell Reading Courses 



PROGRAM 1 

 INTRODUCTION TO PRIMITIVE WOMAN AND HER DAILY LIFE 



Roll call. — A I embers should respond by giving the name of some primitive 

 people or race living anywhere in the world to-day. 



Paper. — Does civilized woman owe anything to primitive woman as her 

 neighbor and as her nation's ward? 



General discussion. 



Paper. — ■ Illustrated talk on the stone and bone implements with which 

 primitive woman has had to do all her housework, that is, cooking, 

 weaving, skin dressing, basket and pottery making. Pictures of some 

 of these tools drawn on a large scale on a blackboard or big sheets of 

 paper will help the speaker to hold the attention of her audience. 



STUDY TOPICS FOR PROGRAM 1 



Interest to be derived 



1. From considering the primitive woman of to-day as the neighbor 



and the ward of the civilized woman. 



2. From realizing and appreciating her skill. 



3. From estimating her contributions to the arts and crafts of present 



civilized peoples. 



4. From following sympathetically not only her material but her in- 



tellectual and spiritual development. 



5. From a careful consideration of her gains and losses by voluntary 



or compulsory contact with civilization. 

 Stud}^ of details of stone and bone tools, which primitive woman has 

 used. Note the material, the shape, the size, and the hafting of 

 each tool, and consider the handicap each presented to the worker. 



PROGRAM 2 

 PRIMITIVE WOMAN AS FOOD BRINGER 



Roll call. — Members should respond by giving the name of a vegetable 



or a meat and one way it may be cooked. 



Fig. 38. — Beginning at the left: a rough stone ax from Arizona; a Mexican grinding 

 stone for making meal; a less primitive scraper made of steel fastened with thongs to a 

 deer's leg hone; a mortar atid pestle from lower California; a stone ax from the country 

 of the Shenandoahs in Virginia; a scoop made of musk ox horn from Alaska 



