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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 W 2 is 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 Kanhifyuafmiut are the largest prcwducers 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-hooli^, 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* 
