1892-93.] 



NOTES ON THE WESTERN D^Nl^S. 



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INDEX. 



N. B. — When the same subject is treated in several consecutive pages, only the first is given. 



Ages (the prehistoric) not strictly successive, 



137- 

 Ahtena, not Dene, 15. 

 Alluvial strata, their age exaggerated. 42. 



Animals hunted by the Western Denes, 93 — 

 large ones never killed for oneself, 95. 



Antiquity of archaeological objects exagger- 

 ated, 39. 



Anthropology, an uncertain criterion of ethno- 

 logical differences, 17. 



Apaches, their habitat, subdivisions and popu- 

 lation, 13. 



Archaeological remains, their age exaggerated, 

 41. 



Archaeology of the Egyptians and the As- 

 syrians easy to fully describe, 5. 



Armour, wooden, 117— siiin, 149. 



Arrow-heads, 53 — bone, 55 — how connected 



with the shaft, 55. 

 Arrows, 56 — their varieties, 56 — how released, 



57- 

 Arrow-shafts, 55. 



Aspen, its root used against bleeding, 130. 

 Astringents, native, 131. 

 Athapaskan, inappropriate as a generic name, 9. 

 Atiyeh, a Carrier game, 81. 

 Atlih, a Carrier game, 78. 

 Atnas, Adanas, etc., not Den^. 17. 

 Atrium of winter lodges, 190. 

 Awls, bone, 69. 

 Axes, of unpolished stone, 43 — partially 



polished, 44 — polished, 46 — how used, 47 



— of iron, 140. 



B. 



Babies, how carried, 134. 



Babines, their physical peculiarities, 18 — 

 habitat, 27 — subdivisions, 27 — their gam- 

 bling sticks, 78. 



Bad-People, a Dene tribe, its habitat and 

 population, 16. 



Bag-net fishing, 91. 



Bags, their varieties, 146. 



Bait of bone, 72. 



Bandelier on the early Navajos, 12. 



Bark peelers, 76 — bottles, 135. 



Bark vessels, 120. 



Bear, what part of it not eaten, 107 — how its 

 skull is treated, 108 — as a totem, 205. 



Bear traps, 95 — snares, 99. 



Beard, not rare among the Babines, 18 — how 



trimmed among the Tse'kehne, 139. 



Beaver, what part of it not eaten, 108. 



Beaver Indians, a branch of the Tse'kehne, 

 II — their habitat, 29. 



Beaver snaring, 66 — nets, their working, 67 

 —trapping, 87. 



Belts, weaving of, 157. 



Berries, how treated, 127, 



Berry baskets, 122 — boilers, 126. 



Bible, its authority undiminished by archaeo- 

 logical discoveries, 40. 



Black-feet, their usual position while sleeping, 

 187. 



Bleeding, how practised, 82. 



Blue berries, how prepared, 127. 



Blunt arrows, 57. 



Boas' map incorrect in one particular, 22. 



Boilers, 125. 



Bone baits, 72. 



Bone implements in use among historical 

 nations, 43. 



Bones of animals, how eaten, 49. 



Bones of the dead, how treated after crema- 

 tion, 146. 

 Bottles, for the castoreum, 66, 135. 



Bow-points, 60. 



Bows, of the Tse'kehne, 58— of the Carriers, 

 59 — how held while shooting, 60 



Bowstrnigs, how made, 58. 



Boyle on palaeoliths, 63. 



Bracelets, 139, 172. 



Breast-blankets, 164. 



Breast-plates, ceremonial, 167. 



Breech-cloth, ceremonial, 180. 



Brinton on the distribution of the D^n^s, 14 



— on the Kerai, 15 — on Dene technology, 



35- 

 Bronze age, contemporaneous with stone age, 



137- 

 Bulbous root diggers, 115. 



c. 



Callbreath on the Tahl-tan Indians, 35. 

 Cambium scrapers, 76. 



