ABSTRACT
Specialization in handicraft begins very early and must, in fact, be characterized as primitive. Attention has already been directed to the division of labour between the sexes, and it was pointed out that the making of certain implements and tools is connected with the respective activities of man and woman. The practice of handicraft is not carried on in isolation as the older economic theorists imagined, but usually in the house; the making of smaller things, such as plaited articles, and minor repairs, the cutting of arrows and the like are also carried on in the men's house. The practice of handicraft with a view to trade cannot be brought into immediate relation with any of the types of political constitution. The distribution of pottery almost coincides with the agricultural regions both in the Old World and in America. The work of the craftsman, like the procuring of foodstuffs, is considered to be constantly connected with influence of supernatural powers.
