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Excerpt from Notes Archaeological, Industrial and Sociological, on the Western D�n�s: With an Ethnographical Sketch of the Same
These considerations, corroborated by the requests of scientists whose advice I have not the right to disregard, have emboldened me to attempt a description of such technological objects as can be illustrated from specimens in my possession or which are still in common use among the Western Denes. The number of these, as will soon appear, is somewhat limited, and therefore my task cannot be very arduous. I only regret that my mineralogical shortcomings render an exact description of the material used in the fabrication of stone implements in a few cases impos sible. For the identification of such rocks as are adequately described, I am under Obligation to Dr. G. M. Dawson, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa.
As technology is the prime object of this monograph, the industries of the Western Denes will be mentioned in so far only as may be necessary for the clear understanding of the nature and use of the objects therein described. Which statement should not convey the idea that I intend to make light of their claims to importance in an ethnological contribution. With a little re?ection, it will become apparent that all human industries meed material aids or means to manifest themselves, and their results must also take a concrete form. N ow, these palpable data, be they the products of human ingenuity or the instruments employed in their development, are per se technological items, and by reviewing the latter, one-cannot help treating of the former. Therefore I simply mean to say that the archaeological, rather than the industrial. Plan will be adopted in the following pages. In other words, our divisions shall be based, not on the industries of the Western Denes, but, as far as practical, on the material of the weapons, tools, utensils, fishing devices and other implements under consideration.
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