656 INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT UPON HUMAN INDUSTRIES. 



Table showing American environments in 



Area and physiography. 



Chief minerals, plants, 

 and animals. 



Alimentation. 



Dress and adornment. 



1. Arctic. 









Six months day; ice and 



Soapstone, chert, slate, 



Drink water only ; eat 



Sleeved coats and 



snow ; country low 



pectolile ; stunted 



fish, seal meat, whale, 



hoods; skins of 



along the coast. 



vegetation, drift; 



reindeer, raw and 



birds, seal, reindeer, 





abundance of fish, 



seethed. 



and intestines; tat- 





birds, andmammalsof 





too; labrets. 





sea and land. 







2. Athapascan. 









Yukon and Mackenzie 



Poor in industrial min- 



Drink water ; meat, fish 



Tawtd caribou skin, 



drainage; lowland, 



erals; birch, conifers, 



of lakes, berries, and 



much adorned with 



subarctic fauna and 



poplars ; caribou, bear, 



bark. 



quill work and 



flora. 



birds, fish, and fur 





beads; gaiter-like 





animals. 





moccasins. 



3. Algonquin — Iroquois. 









Subarctic to temperate; 



Quartzite, sandstone, 



Diet varied, meat, fish, 



Tawed-skin shirt, leg- 



lowlands, prairies, and 



soapstone, diorite; 



marine invertebrates, 



gins, moccasins (low 



indented water w ays 



hard woods, birch, wild 



wildgrains andfruits, 



and adorned) ; tat- 



and coasts. 



rice, tobacco; game, 



maize; granaries; to- 



too and paint. 





fish, mollusks. 



bacco. 





4. Southern United States. 









Rich river valleys and 



River gravels ; stone, 



Fish, meat, mollusks, 



Slight ; deerskin robes, 



low mountains; abun- 



granular and siliceous 



maize, wild fruits 



mantles of wild 



dant rain; Gulf Coast 



in place; timber, cane, 



abundant; granaries; 



hemp ; bodies paint- 



subtropical. 



tobacco, maize; game, 

 fish, and sea products. 



tobacco. 



ed; moccasins. 



5. Plains of the West. 









Piedmont sloping to im- 



Pew minerals ; jasper, 



Meat; fish a little; wild 



Skin clothing ; low 



mense prairies of Mis- 



pipestone; apocy- 



fruits, pemmican, kin- 



moccasins ; feather 



sissippi Valley. 



num, bois diarc ; buf- 



nikinic. 



and quill decora- 





falo, overwhelmingly. 





tions ; body paint 

 and mutilations. 



6. North Pacific. 









Moist, warm climate ; 



Slate, granular rock ; 



Pish diet, mixed with 



Clothing of bark and 



archipelagoes and 



immense forests o f 



berries ; snuff and 



hair, woven in twin- 



mountainous coast. 



conifers ; sea fauna 



pipe. 



ed pattern ; tattoo- 





inexhaustible. 





ing of totems. 



7. Vancouver to Columbia. 









Stern coast, prolific in- 



Siliceous and granular 



Pish diet, mixed with 



Skin and bark cloth- 



land waters; richlands 



rocks; textile plants 



roots and berries ; no 



ing; gaiter mocca- 



coast to mountains. 



a n d forest timber, 



agriculture ; stone 



sins; head flattening. 





edible roots ; fish, 



boiling in basket and 





8. Interior Iiasin. 



waterfowl. 



pit roasting. 





Partial desert among 



Siliceous and stratified 



Dietary meager ; bread, 



Buckskin clo thi n g. 



mountains. 



stone; few fish; deer 



mush, soxips, meat; 



rabbit-skin robes; 





and other game; tim- 



in some cases grubs 



high moccasins; no 





ber poor; seed plants 



and insects ; hot stone 



painting or tattoo- 





abundant. 



and roasting. 



ing. 



