Motif
loss or disappearance of useful arts
loss_or_disappearance_of_useful_arts
A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER XVII / CHAPTER XVIII / CHAPTER XIX / CHAPTER XX; lines 8699-8730 confidence: high
The author says some peoples forget one useful art, but not half a dozen; he lists fire carrying, tobacco licking, thigh-rolling fibre, and hammock-plaiting between two posts as an undeveloped loom.
The passage explicitly discusses peoples forgetting useful arts and applies this to multiple practices, especially possible loss of dug-out canoe-making.
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