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to be studied for their own sake in order to discover their origin, mode of manufacture, use and the various improvements that may have been made in all these regards, yet these are [[strikethrough]] not [[/strikethrough]] none of them the primary [[strikethrough]] object ideas [[/strikethrough]] idea of which [[strikethrough]] is based [[/strikethrough]] the prehistoric museum ^[[is based.]]  [[strikethrough]] Here there [[/strikethrough]] The objects belong to a prehistoric age. ^[[They]] [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] ^[[have]] no history, or but little. They were made and used by a prehistoric people, ^[[of whom]] We have no history of [[strikethrough]] of these peop [[/strikethrough]] their origin, migration, government, manners, habits, customs, civilization.  The articles or objects displayed in the prehistoric museum when viewed in connection with their discovery, association, and strata of superposition, form the only basis of knowledge we have of the people.  These articles are at once the texts of the history as well as its illustrations.

In historic museums we study the object displayed; in the prehistoric museum we rather study the man who made the object, and, therefore, the necessity of having all his relics and remains