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Show / iS8o] AUTHORITIES 287 House- Life of the American Aborigines" ( Contributions to North American Ethnology, 1881), sums up the facts with regard to Indian dwellings as far as they were available at the time it was written. A general review will also be found in F. Ratzel, History of Mankind, II. ( 1897). Ratzel's treatment is not exhaustive and is unsatisfactory, but the work is very well illustrated. The food quest is, of course, noticed in all the general works which have been mentioned. A. P. Jenks, " The Wild- Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes," etc. ( Bureau of Ethnology, Nineteenth Annual Report, 1900), is a good study of a single phase of the subject. Indian economics is a problem much in need of special investigation. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL LIFE The best authority on this subject is O. T. Mason, and his books, Woman1s Share in Primitive Culture ( 1894) and The Origins of Invention ( 1901), while not confined to America in their scope, are trustworthy and especially satisfactory in their treatment of the Indians. A number of studies by the same author, and by C. Rau and others, on special topics in this field, will be found in the publications of the Smithsonian Institution. F. S. Dellen-baugh, The North Americans of Yesterday ( 1901), also considers Indian industrial life at some length. On pottery the numerous papers of W. H. Holmes, in the Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology, are the best; and on basketry, 0. T. Mason, Aboriginal American Basketry ( 1904), is exhaustive and authoritative. There is no good work on Indian warfare. INDIAN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION The chief authority on social organization is L. H. Morgan, whose Ancient Society ( 1877) is still the best work in the field. Morgan's other publications, Houses and House~ Lifetnoticed above, and his Systems of Consanguinity, |