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INDEX. 



Cormorant ; white feathers from, used in embroidery, 

 12. 



Craniii ; from Atka roclc-shelter, 5 ; from Kngamil 

 cave, 20; from Kadiak, 27; from Unga rook- 

 shelter, 29. 



Crutch-handled stick, (see PusJiing stick.) 



Deer, synonymous always with Reindeer. 



Deer-hair; the white, used in embroidery, 14. 



Deer-skin ; white patches of, used in embroidery, 14. 



Deer-sinew ; used for making thread, 14. 



Delarnff Harbor, Fnga Island, 28. 



Dish ; oval wooden, from Kagamil cave, 26. 



DoU ; Alciit, from Kagamil cave, 24. 



Duck, 25. 



Eider, 24. 



Elymus ; a grass used for making matting, 12. 



Embroidered pendant from woman's work-basket» 

 Kagamil cave, 25. 



Embroidery ; Eskimo, materials used in, 14 ; of 

 Tinneh Indians, materials ured in, 14. 



Engel ; Samuel ; hiw Memoires, 2. 



Eskimo tribes of the Catherina Archipelago, 1. 



Exposure of the dead, practiced by Chukchi, 80. 



Pace cloth ; of grass matting, in large mummy 

 case, 15. 



Feathers used in embroidery ; (see Leucosiicie, Cor- 

 morant, Pvffin, etc.) 



Fillet of human hair, from Kagamil cave, 25. 



Fish-skin ; used in embroidery by Eskimo, 14. 



Fox skins ; placed with mummied infant, 20. 



Fur-seal, (see Seal.) 



Grass ; used for weaving matting, 12 ; used for 

 making baskets or work bags, needle cases, 

 etc., 22, 24, 25 ; used for making rope or cord, 

 19. 



Grass baskets, (see Basket, Work-bag.) 



Grass fibre ; preparation of, for use in weaving, 12. 



Grass matting from Unga cave, 29. 



Grass matting, (see Matting.) 



Grass rope or braid, made by Alciits, 19. 



Gray-necked finch, 12, 24. 



Gullet of the seal : made into parchment and used in 



embroidery, 14, 24. 

 Gut bag, 25. 

 Gut parchment; bag made of, from Kagamil cave, 25. 



Gypsum ; used for inlaying woodi-n ware and making 

 beads, 23; found near Nunivak, 23; unfin- 

 ished beads of, found in Kagamil cave, 23. 



Hair ; human, from Kagamil cave, 24; of reindeer, 

 24. 



Hairs, used in embroidery ; from the hoof glands or 

 hoof tufts of the reindeer, 12; frOm the white 

 patches on the skin of the deer, 14. 



Hair-seal skin ; used in embroidery by Eskimo, 14 ; 

 different methods of preparation, 14. 



Hair-seal ; ivory model of, 23. 



Hair-seal, (see Seal.) 



Hoof tufts of the reindeer ; the hairs used in em- 

 broidery, 12. 



Horned puffin, 22. 



Identification of Kagamil mummies, 26. 



Implements of ivory j use unknown, found in KagS- 

 mil cave, 23 ; probably used in sewing or net- 

 ting, 24. 



Ivory figures from Kagamil cave, 23 ; used for 

 smoothing thread, 23. 



Kadiak group, 1. 



Kagamil Island ; celebrated burial cave on, 8 ; visit 

 to, 8 ; reached by Capt. Hennig in 1874,8; 

 Father Sha3'esnikofi''s account of, 8 ; charac- 

 ter of the rock composing the cave, 9 ; atmos- 

 phere of the cave hot, 9 ; mummies from this 

 cave, 9 ei passim. 



Kaniag'muts, 1 ; 26 ei seq. 



Kaniag'mQt cave burials considered, 26. 



Kantags ; placed in mummy case, 17 ; from Kagd- 

 mil cave, 21 ; miniature, from Kagamil cave, 

 26 ; obtained by Alciits and others through 

 barter with the Continental Innuit, 21. 



Kat-hdy-a-koochdk, the toyon, 9; tradition of, 9; 

 death of his son, 10 ; funeral ceremonies, 10. 



Keel of bidarka, from Kagamil cave, 21. 



Killer-whale, (see Orca.) 



Knives, of bone, from Kagamil cave, 25. 



Kyak, (see Bidarka.) 



Labrets, incisions for, present in mummj' from 

 Prince William Sound, 32. 



Lance-head ; of stone from Kagamil cave, 23 ; with 

 Kadiak mummy, 27. 



Lazeroff; Maxim, 9. 



Leucosticte griseinucha ; feathers of, used in embroi- 

 dery, 12. 



Lisiansky's account of Kaniag'mut customs, 26. 



Masks ; Aleiit, 4 ; used as protection against spiri- 

 tual emanations, during religious rites, 5j 

 placed over the faces of the dead, 5 ; from 

 Unga cave, 29 ; ornamented with hair, and 

 colors, 29 ; with feathers and painted wooden 

 pendants, 30. 



Masks, used by Kaniag'muts, 28. 



Masks from Prince William Sound, 32 ; painting on, 

 retouched, 32; how fastened on, 32; orna- 

 mented with feathers and colored designs, 32. 



Matting ; grass, from large mummy case, (17409,) 12; 

 ditto, (17470,j 13; (17472,) 'l5; (17473,) 15. 



Merganser, 24. 



Micaceous oxide of iron ; used as a pigment in em- 

 broidery, 15. 



