ANTHROPOLOGY. 



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Eskimo tribes as determined by dialects. The following table il!iis\ 

 trates the order of thought : 



Aboriginal inland Eskimo. 



Principal stem, Eskimo proper. 



Side branch, Aleutians. 



Eastern. 



III. Middle regions: 

 Iglnlik, Repulse 

 Bay, Churchill. 



IV. Mackenzie. 



I. Greeulanders. II Labradorians. 



V. Western. 



Northern. 

 Pt. Barrow. 

 Kaviagmut. 

 Malemut. 

 Unaligmnt. 

 Ekogmut. 

 Asiatics. 



Southern. 

 0. Tschiigazzet. 



7. Kadjagians. 



8. Kaugengdlit. 



TECHNOLOGY. 



Technology, in the anthropological sense, is the natural history of 

 human arts. Whatever men habitually think about gives rise to spe- 

 cific industries and arts. The study of the progress of mind through 

 these arts is a proper study for anthropologists. 



An excellent example of research in this direction is afforded by Mr. 

 Holmes's papers on pottery in Major Powell's fourth annual rei)ort — 

 notably by the one on the origin and development of form and ornament 

 in ceramic art. 



Forms of pottery arise as follows : 



Origin of form < 



by adventition 

 by imitation 

 by invention 



of natural models 

 of artificial models 



Modification of form may arise in many ways 



Modification of form < 



f incapacity ^ to assume form 



I incapacity of the artisan ) to retain form 



, ^ .... ! changes of method in numutacture 

 by adventition < . "^ r- ^ 



J u, I, u uus^ changes of environment 



changes of use 

 tlack of use 

 influence of men or exotic forms 

 , • f i ^ to enhance usefulness < for the beautiful 

 ■ ""^"'« I to please fancy \ for the grotes(iue 



Mr. Holmes classified decorative motives as follows : 



Suggestious of features of natural utensils or objects 



handles 



Origin of ornament- 



functional 



suggestions of features 

 of artificial utensils; 

 or objects 



Suggestions from accidents attendin' 



legs 

 bands 



perforations 

 f the coil 

 I the scam 

 constructional^ the stitch 

 I the plait 

 (^ Ubo twist, etc. 



( marks of fingers 

 construction <' marks of implements 

 ^ marks of models, etc. 



