Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico - 1907

HANBOOK 

OF 

AMERICAN INDIANS 

NORTH OF MEXICO

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY

Edited By Frederick Webb Hodge

Printed in 1907

Part 1
https://archive.org/details/handbookamindians02hodgrich (online reading and access to various files type)
https://ia700307.us.archive.org/33/items/handbookamindians02hodgrich/handbookamindians02hodgrich.pdf

Part 2
https://archive.org/details/handbookamindians01hodgrich (online reading and access to various files type)
https://ia600306.us.archive.org/2/items/handbookamindians01hodgrich/handbookamindians01hodgrich.pdf

Experiments with primitive technology - A hobby reminiscent of our slave prehistoric ancestors ?

Slavery may have been common among prehistoric peoples even before agriculture / horticulture.

The need for disposable (sold or killed) workforce existed even among hunter-gatherers.

Read  "Slaves, chiefs and labour on the northern Northwest Coast", Kenneth M. Ames, in World Archaeology Vol. 33(1): 1-17 The Archaeology of Slavery
 http://web.pdx.edu/~amesk/pdfs/slaves_World_Arch.pdf