CHAPTER V.

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1. /Material Life/: _Alimentation_: Geophagy--Anthropophagy--Preparation of foods--Fire--Pottery--Grinding of corn--Stimulants and Narcotics--_Habitation_: Two primitive types of dwellings--Permanent dwelling (hut)--Removable dwelling (tent)--Difference of origin of the materials employed in the two types--Villages--Furniture--Heating and lighting--_Clothing_: Nakedness and Modesty--Ornament precedes dress--Head-dress--Ethnic mutilations--Tattooing--Girdle, necklace, and garland the origin of all dress--Manufacture of garments--Spinning and weaving--_Means of Existence_: tools of primitive industry--Hunting--Fishing--Agriculture--Domestication and rearing of animals.