Handbook to the ethnographical collections . ent circum-stances. Climate naturallyhas a certain influence indetermining the develop-ment of clothing, but it isnot the paramount cause;certain peoples—such as theFuegians — live practicalhnude under almost antarcticconditions. In a primitive comnuinitythe individual has little im-portance as such. He mayalmost Ije sai<.l to Itelong to it body and soul, and apart from it has neither rights norresponsibilities. Such a system is unfavourable to the de-velopment of enterprise or private initiative, but at the sametime it encourages the habits of o
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . ent circum-stances. Climate naturallyhas a certain influence indetermining the develop-ment of clothing, but it isnot the paramount cause;certain peoples—such as theFuegians — live practicalhnude under almost antarcticconditions. In a primitive comnuinitythe individual has little im-portance as such. He mayalmost Ije sai<.l to Itelong to it body and soul, and apart from it has neither rights norresponsibilities. Such a system is unfavourable to the de-velopment of enterprise or private initiative, but at the sametime it encourages the habits of obedience, discipline, andcommon action, upon which further social progress absor])ing claims of the connnunity are well instanced bythe primitive laws of property, according to which everythingof the greatest value belongs to the clan in common. The three kinds of property, personal, family, and tribal, arcwell illustrated by Deniker in the following passage—I havemade a flint implement with my own liamls, it is mine; with. Fig. 21.—Wooden mask representingHaida woman wearing liji-plug. QueenCharlotte Islands. 26 INTRODUCTION the assistance of my wife and cliildren I have built the hut,it belonos to the family; I liave hunted with the people ofmy tribe, the beasts slain belong to us all in common.
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