. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. < zq: CD CO < ujCO 3 ZIC O m < UJ o wzo<J HI _I CO m UJ < K< Z X McoEK] CLASSES OF ARTIFACTS 249* abuudaut material; (3) that the great majority of tile objects so em-ployed are discarded after a use or two; (4) that when the objectproves especially serviceable, and other couditions favor, it is retainedto meet later needs; (5) that the retained objects are gradually modi-tied iu form and surface by repeated use; (G) that if the modiflcatioudiminishes the serviceabilit
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. < zq: CD CO < ujCO 3 ZIC O m < UJ o wzo<J HI _I CO m UJ < K< Z X McoEK] CLASSES OF ARTIFACTS 249* abuudaut material; (3) that the great majority of tile objects so em-ployed are discarded after a use or two; (4) that when the objectproves especially serviceable, and other couditions favor, it is retainedto meet later needs; (5) that the retained objects are gradually modi-tied iu form and surface by repeated use; (G) that if the modiflcatioudiminishes the serviceability of the object in the notion of the user(, by such fracture as to produce sharp edges), it is discarded; (7)that if the modiflcatiou enhances the serviceability of the specimen iuthe mind of the user it is the more sedulously preserved; and (8) thatthrough the instinctive desire for perservation, coupled with the thau-maturgic cast of primitive thinking, the objectacquires at once anartiticialized form and a fetishistic as well as a utilitarian significant feature of the development is the total absence offoresight or design, save in so far as the conc
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