“You cannot imagine,” she was saying, “what a joy it has been to unaccumulate! To get rid of things! To select.”

A close inspection of the break shows straight portions above the line of the front and back holes, which to me do not look as if they came about naturally. Taphological examination was indecisive on this question (my thanks to R. Abramowitz of the Department of Zoology of the Hebrew University, for examining the piece).

It is important to recall that the European construct of the Indian and the abstraction designated as Native American religion are both artificial labels suggesting a unity that is nowhere to be found. When we borrow such shorthands, we are really referring to the Arapaho, Blackfeet, Chumash, Delaware, Eskimo, Flathead, Ghost Dancers, Hopi, Iowa—and so on through the rest of the alphabet right to the Yuma and Zuni.

An outer measure 𝜇^* satisfies a property called “subadditivity”, viz.: 𝜇^* big (∪ⱼ₌₁ ᪲A_j big )<∑ⱼ₌₁ ᪲𝜇^*(A_j). If the less-than-or-equal sign were replaced with an equal sign then the property would be “additivity” instead.