The history of mankind (1896) (14740831726)

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Title: The history of mankind

Year: 1896 (1890s)

Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910

Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology

Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.

Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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^^^v Man of the Ruk Islands, (from the Godeffroy Album.) But the level of culture among these races is such as to make us believe that ifthey had discovered the raw material they would have advanced to the use of themetals. With stone, bones, teeth, wood, they have achieved all that was possible.The implements of navigation and fishery, the boats and hooks, are perfect oftheir kind, and show evidence not only of cleverness but of the inventive faculty.Unlike the Australians and Bushmen, as soon as they get iron they know what todo with it. Naturally, iron was also converted to purposes of ornament; and asthe value of glass beads had already dropped considerably, iron ware of all kinds

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Coco and Sago Palms. THE POLYNESIANS AND MIC RONE SI ANS 207 remained the leading article of European trade. They made it available at firstin the forms to which they had long been accustomed, putting pieces of iron hoopinto their axes in place of Tridacna shells, as shown in the cut on p. 208, butretaining in other respects the customary form of the implement. On Ponape,where we can date the end of the Stone Age about the beginning of the twentiesof the present century, iron blades were still always fixed in the lemon-woodhandles as the stone had been ; but the old stone ones were kept, as sacred relics,in the most secret corners of the house. For all heavy implements, especially hammers, adzes, and axes, stone was themost valuable material. It was less so for spears, and stone arrowheads were never in

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