Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 6.—Ketiirning boonui-angs, used in hunting, a. WesternAustralia. Ii. North-Wost Australia, c. Queensland. withdrawn and the tinder is found to be alight. It isdifficult to imagine what conddnation of circumstances couldhave led to the discovery of this apparatus, which was in-vented independently in Europe as a scientific toy. Many tribes at the time of their discovery were living inan age of stone (Figs. 5,8, 9,10), in al (solute ignorance of metals:consequently their arts and industries shed an importantlight upon those of the tribes inhabiti
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 6.—Ketiirning boonui-angs, used in hunting, a. WesternAustralia. Ii. North-Wost Australia, c. Queensland. withdrawn and the tinder is found to be alight. It isdifficult to imagine what conddnation of circumstances couldhave led to the discovery of this apparatus, which was in-vented independently in Europe as a scientific toy. Many tribes at the time of their discovery were living inan age of stone (Figs. 5,8, 9,10), in al (solute ignorance of metals:consequently their arts and industries shed an importantlight upon those of the tribes inhabiting our country inprehistoric times, from which remote period implements ofstone have alone .survived (see Ciuide to the Stone Age). Asurvey of the objects manufactiired ])y such contemporarystone-age people as the Polynesians proves that knowledgeof metal is by no means indispensable to a fairly high stage. Fig. 7.—Fire-making instruments. n. Lump of oio (Ticrra del Fuego).h. Flint and steel CBuima. c. Wood and bamboo strip (Malay States).(/. Twilling (Africa), e. Bow-drill (Eskimo). /. Stick and groove (Oceania\<j. Sawing (with spear-thrower on shield, Australia), h. Firo-piston (Borneo). 16 INTRODUCTION of culture, and that the most surprising examples of art andindustr}^ can be produced with implements of stone, bone, andteeth (figs. 9 and 11). Utensils in the most primitive stageare natural objects, such as gourds, nuts, shells, and hides : later,
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