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they could wrest from its few square rods sufficient food to keep 
starvation from their doors. They could erect substantial buildinos 
of brick or stone, since the same soil that provided their sustenance 
would provide sustenance also for their children’s children; and they 
could concentrate their homes as a single community, facing the river 
that linked them during the summer with the motlierland. 
Indian methods of making lire: a, lumps of iron pyrites; b, a fire-plough; 
c, a hand-drill; d, a pump-drill. 
The Indians lacked every one of these things. Their only domes- 
ticated animal was the dog, which was useful for transportation and 
hunting, but of little value for either food or clothing.^ The Iroquoian 
tribes, who had learned in the south how to grow maize, beans, 
1 The Iroquoian and otIuT trilies frequently ate the dog when meat was searee; the Ojibwa, some 
plains’ and some Pacific coast tribes also ate it on ceremonial occasions; but it was never an important 
article of diet. The Eskimo of southeast Haftin island, according to the hi.storiun of Frobisher's voyage, 
raised a small breed of dogs solely for eating, and a larger breed for drawing the sleds; but apparently 
this small breed quickly became extinct, toi' there is no further reference to it in the literature (Allen, 
“ Dogs of the .American Aboi igines" ; Hull. Mas. of Voin. Zool., vol, Ixiii, p. 492 (Cambridge, 
Mass., 1920)), The use of dogs’ wool iu clothing by the Coast Salish Iiiduins is noticed on p. 68. 
