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TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



[Vol. IV. 



Canoes, 1 14. 



Cap-holders, 83. 



Caps of the Carriers, the, 164. 



Cariboo-eaters, their habitat and population, 16. 



Cariboo skins, how treated, 68. 



Cariboo snares, lOO. 



Carrier Indians, (the), progressive, 5 — their 

 population, 16 — physical characteristics, 17 

 — timid, 18 — habitat, 24 — subdivisions, 24 

 — sociologically considered, 28 — their bows, 

 59 — their bow-points, 60 — their bone scra- 

 pers, 70 — their utensils, 120 — how they 

 carry their babies, 134 — using copper and 

 iron before contact with the whites, 137 — 

 their drums, 150 — formerly practically unac- 

 quainted with snow-shoes, 151 — their weav- 

 ing method, 156 — their ordinary head-dress, 

 164 — their ceremonial costume, 172 — their 

 houses, 184 — their store-houses, 196 — their 

 mortuary columns, 199 — their graphic sys- 

 tem, 206. 



Carvings, 199. 



Castoreum bottles, 66, 135. 



Categories of Dene nouns, 32. 



Ceremonial dress of the Carriers original, 172. 



Chaldean head-dress compared with that of 

 the Carrier noblewomen, 177. 



Charcoal, as a means of ornamentation, 170. 



Cherokees, mound-builders, 39. 



Chickasaw, mound-builders, 40. 



Chippewayans, not the southernmost of the 

 Dene tribes, 9 — their habitat and popu- 

 lation, 16. 



Chipping, how done, 65. 



Clans of the Carriers, 203. 



Cloaks, 164. 



Clubs, war, 64. 



Columns, mortuary, 199. 



Combs, 117. 



Confession to the shaman, 107. 



Continence, regard for, 107. 



Copper, in use in prehistoric times in the Mac- 

 kenzie valley, 136 —in use contemporane- 

 ously with stone implements, 137 — in use 

 among the prehistoric Carriers, 137 — how 

 procured formerly, 137 — its use probably 

 ancient, 138. 



Copper tower, the, 137. 



Cow-parsnip, how eaten, 129. 



Cradles, 133. 



Cranberry, swamp and highbush, eaten, 127. 



Craniometry, an uncertain criterion of ethno- 

 logic certitude, 17. 



Crescents in the septum, 167. 



Crossbows, 59. 



Cuirass, of wood, 117 — of skin, 149. 



" Cut arrows," 56. 



Cuticle (inner) of skins, how removed, 70. 



D. 



Daggers, of stone, 63 — of steel in pre-Euro- 

 pean times, 142. 



Dall on labrets, 1 70. 



" Darding Knife," the, 206. 



Dene (the), progressive, 5 — their name, 8 — 

 the nature of their territory, li — divided 

 long ago in two camps, 12 — their distri- 

 bution, 13 — misconception as to their ethno- 

 graphical status, 14 — classification and 

 population of all the tribes, 16 — points 

 of physical similarities, 18 — psychologically 

 differing among themselves, iS^philolog- 

 ically homogeneous, 21. 



D^ne Dindjie, improper as a collective name, 9. 



Dentalium, its fitness as an article of orna- 

 mentation, 178. 



Dentalium nose-ornaments, 168. 



Devil's bush, its medical properties, 132. 



Dip-nets, 159. 



Dishes, 119. 



Diuretics, native, 131. 



Dog collars, 139. 



Dog-Ribs, a Dene tribe, its habitat and popu- 

 lation, 16 — knew copper before contact with 

 the whites, 136. 



Dress of the Western Denes, 162 — of pubes- 

 cent girls, 165. 



Drills, 143- 



Drinking tubes, 82. 



Drums, 150. 



Dug-outs, formerly unknown, 115. 



Dyes, 173. 



E. 



Ear pendants, 166. 



Eastern Denes : knew of copper before con- 

 tact with the whites, 136 — their dress, 162. 



Elk, now disappeared from among the Carriers, 



93- 

 Emmenagogue, native, 131. 

 ^s, a fish-trap, 89. 

 '^sroiih, how cooked, 116. 

 gstas and the swans, 104. 

 Ethiopians, using stone and bone^weapons, 42^ 

 3zih, 53. 



P. 



Fat scrapers, 68. 



Feathering of the arrows, how made, 56. 



Febrifuge, native, 130. 



Fenni, (the), using bone arrows, 43. 



Fern root, how cooked, 1 16. 



Fern root diggers, 115. 



Finger rings, 140. 



