Ontario Sessional Papers, 1897-98, . - who may be interested in this matter can-not do better than refer to the Deans volume. Stone Tool Fig 42, 3.\ feet long It is always diflicult for us to understand how early man accom-plished so much as we know he di<l. with the primitive appliances athis commaml. There is no doubt that he employed fire, to a largeextent, in the felling of trees, an.! in the shaping of boats, and of many-other wooden articles, no trace of which now remains. We are not warranted in supposing that our Indians ever madeany but the simplest attempts in wood-c
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1897-98, . - who may be interested in this matter can-not do better than refer to the Deans volume. Stone Tool Fig 42, 3.\ feet long It is always diflicult for us to understand how early man accom-plished so much as we know he di<l. with the primitive appliances athis commaml. There is no doubt that he employed fire, to a largeextent, in the felling of trees, an.! in the shaping of boats, and of many-other wooden articles, no trace of which now remains. We are not warranted in supposing that our Indians ever madeany but the simplest attempts in wood-carving, .still, even these musthave been slow and laborious. But he was not in a hurry. No mas-ter demanded a stint —in fact he had a lifetime, long or short, beforehim for the accomplishment of his task. Fortunately we possess a very good example of wood-carvingexecuted by a savage in the stone age—an age that but recentlyexisted in many of the Pacific islands, and which, perhaps, exists msome of them yet, as it does also in other places. The examplereferred to is shown in figure 42, which represents what the whiteman calls a pudding-dish,
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