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altogether out of proportion to the results achieved. It is true that 
time had little value for the Indian, that his only clock was the 
sun, his only calendar the seasons with their changing supplies of 
fruit, fish, and game. Nevertheless, the slow, tedious manufacture 
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C'anier Indian woman drossiiiK a moosehide with a stone-bladed scraper. 
(Photo hy Harlan /. i^mith.) 
of tools and household effects during the hours that could be spared 
from fishing and hunting greatly restricted his leisure for other pur- 
suits, and powerfully strengthened all the other cogs that checked 
the wheel of progress.^ 
] Cf. .Mt>ar«'.s, .loliti: 0|i. cit., |>. 262. 
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