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Bamboo striko-a-light, ethnography of 119 



torches of Madagascar 206 



twisted torches, China.. 206 



Bancroft, H. H., observations of 202 



Banksia, cone of 4 



Bantu, consulting of fire by 182 



southern, myths of . 165 



Barber, H. Mitford, observations of 25 



Bark canoes, steaming and bending, Canada. 69 



Bark, thickening of 8 



torches, Australia 20S 



Basket, fire 17 



torch _ 202 



Borneo _ 208 



Near East 205 



Basutos, bellows of 25 



Baths - 76 



air, of Pueblos 77 



vapor, among Eskimo 77 



suggestion as to origin 78 



Bayberry wax candles 211 



Beacons, history of 69 



Bear hunting, Natchez Indians 65 



Beckwith, Paul, Porto Rico stove - 49 



Bedouin fire drill 93 



Belgium, immigrant lamp of 235 



lamp of 229 



Bellows- - 24 



primitive valve 24 



Benares, fire feat at 177 



Benefaction myths 161 



Berbers, North Africa, fire plow 109 



Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. 234 



Bernier, Francois, observations of 7 



Bhutan threshing by Are 67 



Biblia Pauporum, brazier in 17 



Binghamton pattern hot-water foot warmer. 16 



Biological factor 7 



Birch bark roll torches 201 



Bock, Carl, observations of 5 



Bogflr, torch of - 205 



Bogle, George, Tibetan fuel 56 



Boiling — - - 44 



not known in Homeric age 44 



stone 40 



Bokairi Indians, fire myth of 162 



Bones of animals used as fuel 57 



Bonfires — - 144 



northern Cheyennes 144 



Bonvalot, Q., Tibet fire customs 134 



Borneo, burning hill in 5 



fire ceremony of 173 



piston bellows of... 25 



torches 208 



Borrowing fire - 166 



tongs for 19 



Botocudos Indians, cooking 45 



Bourke, John Q., Apache talismans... 145 



Bow and cord drill, Eskimo 96 



Bow drill, American Indian 97 



Athapascan 97 



Box bellows... 25 



Boyle, David, canoe making 69 



Brass crusies 227 



lucerna, Italy 222, 228 



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Braziers 62 



ancient, Arizona - 27 



antiquity of 28 



Chilean 26 



Indian Hill, Massachusetts., Span- 

 ish 26 



Kobatsu, Japan 28 



Mesopotamia, ancient 28 



Mexico 27 



Parsees 28 



Pompeian 26 



Spanish 26 



Tagalog, Philippines 27 



Brazil, communal houses of, fireplace in 10 



fire at Easter In 252 



flre-making methods 103 



Bribri Indians, genesis myths of 161 



Bride's lamp, Eskimo 59 



Brinton, Daniel Q., observations of 210 



British Museum 234,238 



Bronze Ago, flat shovel of 20 



pocket stove of 16 



Brown, George, observations of... 182 



on fire offering 133 



Browne, Sir Thomas, on charcoal 76 



Brunka Indians, fire myths of 161 



Buddha priest, cremation of 169 



Buffalo, increase of, cause of 8 



Burma, chatty lamp of 232 



fire purification in 173 



oil torches of 208 



torches 208 



Burns, treatment of 175 



Burrowing animals 7 



Bushmen, boiling pot 45 



ceremonial smoking by. 176 



exorcism by 183 



fire drill of 92 



Busk, or green corn dance 18 



Cabeza de Vaca, account of stone boiling... 42 



Cache, fire, of Creeks 3 



of eastern Indians. 3 



of Natchez 3 



of southern Indians 3 



California, baking slab 40 



Indians, cremation by 170 



Cambodia, wax candles of 251 



Camp fires, preservation of 4 



Camphene oil fuel 224 



Canary Islands, ancient lamps of 244 



Candle and torch 198 



Candleflsh, torches of 200,201 



Candles 109 



dependent on animal and plant re- 

 sources 209 



development of.. 208,209 



dipping of 213 



liigh in scale of invention 209 



holders. 190 



England 215 



kinds of 209 



lanterns. 216 



making 211,212 



molding 213 



placements of, pricket 214 



