Tylor (1832-1917) was an evolutionist concerned with knowing the origins of things and discovering the first examples of major attributes or traits (Gale 2008). He believed that sport could provide clues to contact with prehistoric culture (Blanchard 1995: 9-10). Before the 1950s, sports researchers made important anthropological contributions. They wrote about sports among small-scale societies and pre-literate people. During this period, there were few occasions when articles on sport appeared in anthropology journals (Blanchard 1995; Chandler et al 2007). Early researchers in the field such as Stewart Culin in 1907 (also known as a "game scholar... in the field of anthropology") published his work entitled Games of the North American Indians, in the Bereau of American Ethnology. His work was published by the Government Printing Office in Washington DC (Dyck 2004). Karl Wuele in 1925 (a German scholar who made an ethnological study on the origin and development of sports) had his work published in the journal Oceania (Coakley and Dunning 2002:146; Blanchard 1995:14). Other published works include Raymond Firth's (1931) study of A Dart Match in Tikopia. His work was published in Oceania (Dyck 2004). Lesser's work (1933).