stage from the very ’beginning of stone shaping up to full 
relief and realistic portrayal of the human subject* Uo people 
known to us lias within the culture range of the Americans shown 
such a versatility and power with the hammer and chisel, non© 
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that has embodied in stone a mythology so rich in imagery, in- 
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eluding as it does the forms of men, beasts, monsters and cosmic 
phenomena of many hinds. With the work of the living peoples 
as a lcey the archeologist has spread out before him as in an 
open bock the whole story of the evolution of sculptural phe- 
nomena as manifested within the horizon of barbarism. 
MSTAIiLUUGY -- The utilization of metals is among the most i 
port ant activities of civilized man and has boon a chief agency 
in the development of culture and especially in gigantic for- 
ward steps of recent years. Although the genrrul course of it 
development and the relation of its successive at ages of pro- 
gress are well made out much remains to be learned, and in till 
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direction America is able to make the moot valued contributions. 
