ABSTRACT
That certain specific occupations and activities should be assigned to man and others to woman in the death-complex, then, occasions us no surprise, for an examination of various primitive areas shows that whereas hunting is always the work of man, gathering produce falls to the lot of woman. Since this is so, we would expect inventions which are identified with hunting ascribed to men, and those correlated with household activities attributed to women. We find that those occupations which require slowness of movement depend upon the female sex, while those entailing rapidity belong to males. Whenever the food is stationary the work is done by the woman, and this explains why garden culture is always in her hands. The same holds good in the other occupations. Among the Iroquois, for instance, the art work of the women is confined to embroidered plant and flower decorations, and that of the men to animal representations on wampum and wood carvings. If we find this division of labour in different phases in the economic life of the primitive, we certainly would expect to find it emph8.sized in the death -situation.
