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INDEX 



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Shorn Pen, Nicobar Islands, boiling 46 



Shoshone Indians, Are offerings of 133 



Shovel, fire 19 



Sla Indians, fire invocation of 173 



Siam, fireflies of 197 



torches of 207 



Siberia, destruction of ghosts in 169 



flint and steel pyromancy in 182 



tribes of 169 



Side draught holes 23 



Signals by beacons, history of 60 



fire and smoke 58 



smoke 58 



Sikkim, India, blast apparatus from 25 



Singapore, torches from... 207 



Sioux lodge, description of. 9 



Skin bag bellows.. 24 



Skull cult, Dyaks 134 



Slow match 3 



Smith, John 7 



on fire making... 98 



on native gridiron 20 



Smoke and ashes, uses of 71 



Smoke and fire signals 58 



Smoke, attitude of primitive peoples toward, . 13 



fumigation, Eskimo 29 



hole 9, 13 



lore of 136 



Smudge for insects, Chukchi 61 



Lapps 61 



Tunicas and Creek In- 

 dians 61 



Snuffers, candle 216 



Soaproot, baked in oven 36 



Soapstone, cooking pots, Eskimo.. 44 



lamps, Cashmere 220 



stoves, Korea 50 



triangular lamps, Turkestan 230 



use of, in baking 34 



use of, in boiling vessels 44 



Social organization and communal fire 9 



Society Islands, baked candlenut of 207 



Sockets for burning candle ends... 215 



Soh, Pom K., Korean lighting customs 147 



Soho candle lamps 213 



Solomon Islands, fireplace in dwellings of... 11 



fire plow of-.. 108 



Soumoos Indians, Nicaragua, cooking by-.- 45 



South America, fire-origin myths of 161 



torches of 203 



Southern Indians, cross-shape religious fire.. 18 



Spain, braziers.. 26 



fire blowing tube from 19,20 



lamp of 228 



scissor-like tongs of 19 



stoves 49 



torches 205 



Spanish immigrant, lamp of 236 



obsolete lighting devices 205 



shovel for tending brazier 20 



Special heating appliances 14 



Spectrum analysis of light 194 



Sperm oil 248 



Spider, cast iron _ 40 



Spirit, or expiatory lights 254 



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Spit, of Powhatan Indians, Virginia 33 



primitive 33 



Splint holders 214 



Spontaneous combustion of coal dust 5 



Spout, long, lamps of Northern Europe 222 



Spring candlesticks, Germany 215 



Srinagar, Kashmir, stove of 16 



Starr, Frederick, Batua fire plow 109 



Stationary fireplace 21 



Steamer for rice, East Sumatra 43 



Simalur Island 43 



Steaming, rice _ __ 43 



Zuni Indians, method of 43 



Steel, introduction of.. 114 



Stone age, torches of 199 



Stone baking slabs 40 



Stone boiling 40 



Arikara Indians 42 



Dogrib and Slave Indians 42 



East Canadian Indians 41 



HongKutchin Indians, Canada 42 



Indians of lower Rio Grande.. 42 



Kwakiutl Indians 42 



modern practice 43 



Solomon Islands 43 



Teton Sioux 41 



Tlingit Indians 42 



vessels used in __ 41 



Zuni Indians 42 



Stone, bosses, bordering circle of 12 



fireplace of 12 



Stormy petrel torch 204 



Stove, additions to 52 



African 48, 51 



ambulant 16 



ancient Etruscan 49, 52 



bosses of... 20 



east iron, with grate 49, 50, 51 



. cooking, development of 31,32 



earth, Africa 51 



Etruscan 49,52 



fixed 51 



flue 28 



hand 16 



Hindu, in South Kensington 



Museum 48 



hot water, Chinese. 50 



inventions in 49 



metal 49 



modern and ancient Egypt 48 



portable ._ 47 



Portugal 49 



pottery 47,48,49 



simple - 47 



simple range, Philippines 51 



simple, with hearth. - . 47 



soapstone 34 



under draught 49 



West Indies . 49 



with grates 46,47,51 



without draught -- 47 



Strange and pure fire 143 



Strange fire. Biblical reference 143 



Street lighting 245, 246 



Strike-a-light, Africa - 118 



