The purposes of ethno-hotany.! 
J. W. HARSHBERGER. 
To the World’s Fair in 1893 was brought a unique collec 
tion of objects obtained through the liberality of Mr. Hazzard 
by the Wetherill brothers in the Mancos cafion, Colorado 
Never before in the history of American archeology had such 
a complete series of objects been brought together for study 
and comparison. The University of Pennsylvania was fortt- 
nate in securing through the efforts of Mr. Culin the loan af 
the entire collection, which stands unrivalled in showingé 
large series of interesting things; plant products in the form 
of food, dress, and household utensils being very largely rep- 
resented. It is to the description of the plants and plast 
general. 
The study of ethno-botany aids in elucidating the cul 
tural position of the tribes who used the plants for food, shel 
ter or clothing. The well-known classification of men 
they did not pursue agriculture, they subsisted on the — 
of wild grasses and herbs. The cliff dwelling peoples, a 
ably driven to the mountain fastnesses, had practically . 
the hunter stage and had begun to enter the agriculti 
A people may be said to have left the pastoral and en a 
upon the agricultural stage, when chief dependence is pla 
upon the returns of the sojl under cultivation, With i 
entrance upon this condition, new implements were devis ot 
new methods of field labor introduced. An examinatio? 
ne 
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? A lecture delivered bef — . 
cember 4, 1895. ore the University Archzological Associatio® 
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