The Trustees of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center kind-
ly granted leave of absence and allowed me to use items from
the collections of the Taylor Museum. For financial help, I am
grateful to Mrs. Charles W. Mills, Mr. Charles L. Tutt, and
the Comparative Study of Values in Five Cultures, Laboratory
of Social Relations, Harvard University. A generous grant from
the El Pomar Foundation has made it possible to publish this
revision of my doctoral dissertation.

My thanks go to all whom I have buttonholed and cajoled
into comment about aspects of the problem: Ethel Albert, Her-
bert Barry, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Dodge, Leland Gralapp,
Berard Haile, Walt Jacobson, John Ladd, George McCue, Otto
von Mering, William Morgan, Stanley Newman, John Roberts,
and Agnes Sims. For careful reading and painstaking criticism
I am indebted to Gordon Allport, Harry Bober, Richard Grove,
Clyde Kluckhohn and Leland Wyman. John Roberts and Evon
Vogt, Co-Directors of the Values Study when I was at Rimrock,
obligingly devoted many hours to my difficulties. Above all I
want to thank Clyde Kluckhohn for acting as my dissertation
adviser, encouraging this undertaking and publication of its
results, and helping me out of numerous quandries.

The book is designed by Alan Swallow who also saw it
through the press. Mrs. Charles Edmonds and Mrs. Richard
Grove typed the manuscript, and Myron Wood photographed
the drawings. Mrs. Eulalia Chapman and the staff of the Bibli-
ographical Center for Research in Denver have been most help-
ful.

My wife's efforts recall Alice's portrait of a muchness. In
addition to helping with many tasks, she succeeded in reviving
my fainting spirit and dampening misplaced enthusiasm.

I am grateful to the Navahos and Salcedanos who did what
most of my theory-loving friends dare not try--drawing.

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