The Disappearance of Useful Arts

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In this region where volcanoes are even now active 3, it is possible that the use of pottery throughout an extensive region was wiped out by the destruction of some special people from whom the pottery was obtained. It is even possible that the pot- tery of Santo may have been introduced later into a region from which pottery had many ages before been eliminated by a volcanic catastrophe. We should have in such a case a combination of material and social factors. If pottery were once made in ev...ery island and district of the northern New Hebrides, it is very unlikely that any volcanic catastrophe would have wiped it out completely; but the limitation of the art to one district is a social factor which makes intelli- gible such an effect of the material agency. The material factor acting alone would not have abolished the art but in combination with the limitation of the manufacture to special 1 See Seligmann, op. Cit. , pp. 96 and 526.
2 De Vaux, Rev. D'Ethnog. , 1883, Vol. Ii, p. 340.


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