“Every culture, however primitive or advanced, is absolutely dependent on its artifacts for its survival and self-realization.”

E. McClung Fleming; Artifact Study: A Proposed Model; 1974

 

 

“Nothing less than the whole of the past is needed to explain the present, and in this difficult task we cannot afford to neglect the unrecorded past.”

E. Estyn Evans; Irish Folk Ways; New York; Devin-Adair; 1957