| _ tribe has advanced considerably beyond jia: savage sta sss 
Q2 Pottery Among Savage Races. [ February, 
ever, the potters’ clay burns red like the soil. A cunning work- 
man will make in a day four of these pots, some of them con- 
taining several gallons, and their perfect regularity of form, and 
often their picturesqueness of shape, surprise the stranger. The 
best are made in Ujiji, Karagwahand Ugunda, those of Unyamwezi 
are inferior, and the clay of Zanzibar is of all the worst.” 
Schweinfurth states that “as in the case with the majority of 
the inhabitants of Africa, the manufacture of pottery is practiced 
by the women (Zeitschrift fur Ethn., 1873, i, 8). 
“In Yoruba,” says Bowen, “the women make earthern pots ” 
(Central Africa, p. 308); and so, also, do those of Garo-a-Bautschi 
and Tesan, and the Guinea coast. We are, therefore, I think, 
justified in coming to the conclusion that the fictile art, in its 
infancy, is confined to the women is as true of Africa as of 
America. 
In the East Indian Archipelago, the Papuan women make pot- 
tery (Journ. of Ind. Arch., v, 313; Norris’ Ethnogr. Lib., i; Earl’s 
Papuans, p. 73). While pottery is unknown in the greater num- 
ber of the South Sea Islands, in Fiji it has reached a high state 
of development (Williams and Calvert. Fiji, N. Y., 1859, 33; 
Wood, Unciv. R., Amer. Ed., 930), Women have the making of 
pottery entirely in their own hands, and the art, moreover, seems 
to be confined to the women of sailors and fishermen. © It is also 
worth noting that the Fiji women are skilled in the manufacture 
of stamped bark cloth, making the patterns themselves (see also 
Jenkin’s U. S. Expl. Exp., 341, 347; Lubbock, Preh. ica: an 
Pickering’s Races of Men, 163). 
The facts I have given seem to show that among savage tribes 
generally, the fictile art is, at first, exclusively practiced by: 
women, the reason being that, primarily and essentially, the 
fabrication of earthenware is a branch of culinary work, which 
last, everywhere falls to the lot of the gentler sex. Man, among 
= savages, is the hunter, fisher and warrior, while the woman takes 
care of the house, and of the culture of the field. When, how- 
ever, in the progress of the tribe in culture, the practice of the 
art of pottery comes to be a profession, and to interfere with 
household work, it passes naturally into the hands ak man, and it 
will be found that in every case where men mak ë 
™ a woman not ak bnan vessels < 
