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INDEX 



Buffalo Bill's Cave, ii6 



Buffalo skull shrine, 63, 64 



Bureau of American Ethnology, 2, 3, 5, 55, 



212, 223, 224, 240 

 Burial customs, 174, 205 



Burials, 38, 61, 64, 103, 113, 19S-201, 208, 

 228, 250, 278, 279 



summary of, 266 



See also Ossuaries; Skeletal material 

 Burkett site, 43, 48, 62, 63, 64, 67, 246, 



273. 297 

 Burnett, E. A., 2 

 Burpee, cited, 28 

 Bushnell, cited, 20, 51, 55, 144, 205, 206, 



266 

 Butte, Nebr., 242 

 Butte site, 246, 275 



Coues, cited, 26 



Covington, Nebr., 18 



Crania, see Skeletal material 



Crescent City, mounds near, 209 



Crow, 28, 37, 298 



Crow earth lodge, 28 



Crow migration, 295 



Cultural affiliations, with areas adjacent to 

 Nebraska, 282-294 



Cultural classification of archeological re- 

 mains, I, 2 



Culture, affected by environment, 30-40 



Culture sequence, 271-282, 296 

 table of, 272 



Cultures, summary of, 245-271 



Cumro site, 246, 271, 280 



Caches, see Storage pits 



Caddoan stock, 7, 12, 39, 287, 292 



Camancias, 26 



Cannibalism, possibility of, 174, 265 



" Capaha," 17 



Cape, Robert E., 222 



Cape site, 282 



Carver, 27 



Cataka, 26 



Cat-a-kah, 26 



Catlin, 1 1, 22 



Ceramics, see Pottery 



Chanipe, John, 4 



Charlevoix, 10, 12-13, 21 



Chaui Pawnee, 57 



Cheyenne, 13, 15, 19, 26, 27, 29, 39, 40, 



272, 299 

 Cheyenne River, 12-13, 20, 27, 28 

 Cheyenne sites, 292 

 Child's Point site, 42, 208 

 Chipped points 



change in, 279, 280 



classification of, 89 



distribution of, 90 



Yuma type, 280-281 



See also Artifacts; Folsom points 

 Chipped stone, see Artifacts 

 Chippewa, 27, 28 

 Chittenden, cited, 22 



Chiwere division, 12, 17, 21, 24, 39, 295 

 Clarks site, 48, 246 

 Climate of Nebraska, 38 

 Clovis, N. Mex., 280 

 Coffin, C. C, 223 

 Coffin, Roy G., 223 

 Collot, 12-13, M. '9. 26, 27 

 Colorado, 



archeological work in, 293 



historic tribes of, 27 

 Comanche, 10, 12-13, 15, 18, 19, 25, 26, 29, 



39, 212, 270, 272, 27i, J98 



Conclusions, 294-300 



Condra, cited, 3 1 



Condra and Keyser, cited, 31 



Connelley, cited, 16, 26 



Cook, Harold J., 51 



Cordage, 100 



Corn, see Maize 



Coronado, 7 



Cottonwood Creek site, 246 



Dakota groups, burial customs of, 266 



Dakota migration, 295 



Dakota tribe, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 27, 28, 29, 



37-38, 39. 40, 99. 272 

 Daniels, Lee, 3, 243 

 Decoration of pottery, 84, 131, 159-160, 188, 



229, 240, 243, 244, 247-248, 252, 



262, 268, 277, 286 

 De Land, cited, 267, 289 

 De I'lsle maps, cited, 12-13, '6. 22, 24, 25 

 Dent, Colo., discovery at, 223 

 De Soto, 1 7 



Des Moines River, 12-13, 22, 42 

 Dhegiha division, 12-13, M. if^. '7, 20, 24, 



39, 206, 295 

 Dhegiha migration, 19 

 Dismal River culture, 272 

 Dismal River region, 212-213 

 Dismal River sites, 212-217, 246, 270-271 

 Dixon, cited, 17 

 Dodge, Richard L, quoted, 37 

 Dooley, T., 71 

 Dooley site, 69-103 

 Dorsey, cited, 16, 17, iS, 19, 20, 21, 22, 



24, 206 

 Douglas, Ralph, 4, 79, 8i, 82, 84 

 Dunbar, cited, 267, 298 

 Duncan, C. A., 83 

 Du Pratz, 12-13, 21, 23, 25 

 Du Tisne, cited, 10, 16 



Earth lodges, iS, 4S-49, 57, 62-63, 64, 73-74 

 development of types, 276-277 

 excavation of, 63, 74-78, 101-103, 126- 

 129, 138-139, 147. 151. 154-157, 

 164-165, 166-167, 172-175 

 floor plans of, 64, 72, 127, 148, 155 

 method of excavation, 73-74, 227-228 

 shapes of, 174-175, 240, 249, 262-266, 



274 

 walls of, 264 

 Earth lodge sites, extent of, 263 

 Earthworks, 57, 206 

 Eastman, i i 

 Efligy heads, 257, 258 

 Eiseley, I-oren. 3, 241, 242 

 " Elephant," fossil, artifact associated with, 

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