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INDEX 



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Night light.... 238 



Nights, influence of, on lighting inventions. 185 



Nordenskijold, Baron. 87 



on Siberian flint and 



steel 117 



NorabiioKijold, Erland, South American fire 



myths 158 



North African lamp 228 



North America, torches of 200 



Northwest Coast Indian, simple drill 150 



stick tongs of 19 



Norton, C. A. Q., observations of- 210,226 



Norway, lamp of 226 



Nozzle bag bellows - 24 



Nut oil. 248 



Oblong structures, origin of.. 13 



Observation, fire invention by Xiii 



Occupational lamps 225 



Oceania, fire myths of 162 



Offerings to fire.. 132 



Oil presses 249 



Old World ordeals 171 



Olive oil as lamp fuel .- 221,248 



Omaha Indians, lighthig customs of 145 



Ordeals 170 



Organic lighting substances 192 



Origin myths 156 



Orkney Island lamp 218 



Osage Indians, carrying of fire by 3 



Osier, woven, fire bowl 16 



Outside fireplace.. 10 



Ovens, aboriginal 34 



agave, Mexicans 37 



Biblical 39 



Cora and lluichol Indians, Mexico... 39 



erected above ground 39 



Eskimo _ 37 



Hopi andZuni Indians 39 



Koitapu natives, New Guinea 45 



Maori, New Zeland 37 



modern Syrian 39 



mound builders, Ohio 39 



Nez Perce Indians 35 



Nutka Sound Indians 35 



paunch, Teton Sioux Indians 41 



pit, Polynesians 38 



Ute Indians 37 



Pomo Indians, California 36 



Powhatan Indians, Virginia 36 



Queensland, Australia 38 



skin-lined pit 41 



Tequila, Mexico... 37 



without hot stones — 38 



Zuni myth of 39 



Pallas, P. S., observations of 6 



Palmer, Edward, observations of 15,19 



Palm oil. 148 



Panamint Indians, nut harvest by fire 66 



Papa-Ita, fire walk by 179 



Paper cartridges of charcoal.. 16 



formulistic burning of 175 



Parafl3n candles 212 



oil lamp fuel 224 



Parching and roasting, discusion of 33 



Parching in basket 33 



Paris, early street lights of 205 



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Parsee,[flre worship of 129,130,178 



obtaining of pure fire from lightning by 147 



Patagonians, fire making i03 



Patwin Indians, Sacramento, fireplace of 9 



Peat, Greenland Eskimo use of fuel.. _ 57 



Pecten-shell lamp of Britany 219 



Pennsylvania Germans, fire borrowing by... 166 

 fire treatment of ery- 

 sipelas by 175 



iron candlesticks of. 214 



tin table lamp 236 



Perpetual fire 142 



lights 255 



Persia, fireplace. 10 



fire purification on New Year's day by 174 



fuel used in 10 



mystic fire of 177 



saucer lamps of 230 



Peter, Simon.. 14 



Petroleum, discovery of.. 224 



Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, hot 



water containers at.. 16 



Philippine Islands, fire piston of 110 



lamps of 233 



stoves 51 



torches of 207,208 



Phosphorus, discovery of 125 



Piercing holes for draught 22 



Pile dwellings, lighting of_ 243 



Pima Indians, fireplace of 10 



Pine, dissemination of seed by fire 8 



fat, splint torches of-_ 203 



torches 203 



Piston bellows 25 



Pit house, ancient, at Luna, New Mexico, 



stone hearth in 12 



fireplace of 10 



Plains Indians, drill obsolete 99 



fireplace of 9 



Playfair, Lyon, Memoirs and correspond- 



enceof 181 



Pleyte, on Indonesian fire drill 91 



Pocket stove, Japanese.. 16 



Poison in food, extraction by cooking 36,37 



Polo, Marco 246 



firemythsof 162 



Polynesia, fire walk in 179 



stone lamps of 234 



torches 207 



Pomo fire lifter 19 



Portable stoves 47 



Porto Rica, stoves of 49 



torches of... 203 



Portugal, stoves 49 



Portuguese immigrant, lamp of 2.36 



Pothooks 21 



Pottery, antedates metallurgy 75 



development of 76 



hot-water bottles 16 



stoves 47 



use of, in vessels for boiling 44 



Powell, J. W., Ute Indian cooking. 37 



Powhatan, chimney of. 13 



Powhatan Indians, Virginia, spits and grids 



of.. 20.33 



Prairie, cause of denudation of 7 



