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not get even one of them for anything he had to offer for I 

 had long tried unsuccessfully to get a shovel. 



It may be said, then, that the people who frequent Great 

 Bear lake are not so much manufacturers of wooden ware as 

 the gatherers and distributers of wood. 



The people who have access to the mouth of the Kogluk- 

 tualuk are manufacturers of lamps and pots still, though their 

 market now can be but a small fraction of what it once was. 

 To make a large pot (inside measure say 9 X 40 inches and 7 

 inches deep) is said to take all a man's spare time for a year, 

 and some take two years to the making of a pot. Lamps are 

 more quickly made. Certain individuals are considered expert 

 pot makers, and many others attain old age without ever having 

 made a large pot, though all have owned one or more. A man 

 who spends the summer making a pot must live that summer 

 on fish and must, therefore, to clothe himself and his family, buy 

 caribou for the winter from those who have been at the caribou 

 grounds while he was stonecutting. No man of these tribes 

 probably ever devoted even half the summer of his active life 

 to stonework, yet we have here the beginning of division of labour, 

 the germ of a "trade". These pot and lamp makers furnish 

 the best example known to me both of specialization of industries 

 by tribes and of the division of labour among individuals. The 

 division of labour between the sexes hardly finds a logical place 

 under the title chosen for the present paper, as its dependence 

 on natural resources and commerce is not close nor self-evident, 

 though to a degree there no doubt is such dependence. 



Though the KanhifyuSrmiut are the largest producers and 

 exporters of copper within the district, they have not developed 

 into manufacturers of copper implements as the tribes near the 

 soapstone quarries have developed into pot-makers, probably 

 because copper is more portable and its uses are more varied 

 for cutting and stabbing weapons, fish-hooks, tools, shafts and 

 rods, ice picks, patches for articles of horn, bone and wood, 

 rivets, needles, etc. The material for a copper knife weighs less 

 than the made knife the caribou horn handle can be added by the 

 member of any tribe: a pot probably does not weigh over 10 per 

 cent or 15 per cent of what the block weighed that went to make it, 



