1892-93.] 



NOTES ON THE WESTERN D^NES. 



215 



Fire, primitive mode of starting a, 1 14. 

 Fire-bags, common, 148 — ceremonial, 180. 

 Fire-place, where situated, 187. 

 Fire-wood, how procured by the poorer classes, 



47- 

 Fishes, species of, 73. 

 Fish-hooks, 72. 

 Fishing, 71 — with bait, 72 — with traps, 84. 



— with bag nets, 91. 

 Fish traps, 84. 

 Fish trays, 123. 

 Flaking, how done, 65. 

 Floats, III, 



Folk-lore, differs according to the tribe, 21. 

 Forts, 195. 



Foxes, different varieties in the same litter, 95. 

 Fox snares, 102. 

 Fraas on ancient weapons, 42. 

 Frazer on the varieties of totems, 203. 



G. 



G and W commutable in the Aryan languages, 



8. 

 Gambler and the Great Bear, the, 79. 

 Gambling-sticks, 77. 



Game sought after by the Western Denes, 93. 

 Games of the Western Denes : nsfsa'a, 78 — 



atlih, "jS—aiiye/i, 81 — Mquh, III — t9ko', 



112 — nazaz, 112 — 'keilapas, 112. 



Gentes, their number, 203. 



Geology against the great age attributed to 

 archseological remains, 42. 



Gorgets, unknown, 35. 



Gouges, unknown. 35. 



Graphic systems, their origin, 206 — that of the 



Carriers, 208. 



Graves, monuments on, 200. 



Great Bear and the Gambler, the, 79. 



Great Bear and the Hunter, the, 194 — deduc- 

 tions from that legend, 195. 



Grizzly Bear, are there two varieties of it ? 94. 

 H. 



Hair, sometimes fair among the Carriers, 1 8 

 — mode of wearing it, 181. 



Hair scrapers, bone 69 — steel, 143. 



Hair tweezers, 138 



Hale on the country of the Eastern Denes, II. 



Hammers, stone, 47. 



Hares, a Dene tribe ; its habitat and popu- 

 lation, 16. 



Head-dress of the Carriers, 164 — of the pubes- 

 cent girl, 165 — of the same when of noble 

 parentage, 166— of the noblemen, 173— of 

 the noljlevvomen, 177 — the same compared 



with that of the Chaldean Kings, 177— of 

 the shamans, 181. 



Head-scratchers, 82. 



Heart of animals, not eaten, and by whom, 

 107. 



Hemlock, its medical properties, 132. 



Haemorrhage, how stopped, 131. 



Hides, how dressed, 49, 69, 145. 



History against the great age attributed ta 

 archaeological remains, 42. 



Hole-borers, 143. 



Horse-tails, their medical properties, 131. 



Houses, see Lodges. 



Hupa, their habitat and numbers, 13, 16 — their 



influence over neighbouring tribes, 19 — 



their conservatism, 20. 



Hurdles for the salmon weirs, 85. 

 Huts, subterranean, 191. 



I. 



Ice-breakers, 75. 



Ice-scoops, 156. 



Indians, mound builders, 40. 



Industries, why and how treated of, 6. 



Iron, in use among the negroes of Africa, 137 



— in use among the pre-historic Carriers, 140. 

 Iron, axes, when first introduced, 140— how 



iron tools were prized on the Coast, 142. 



J. 



Juniper, its wood used to make bows with, 59- 

 — its boughs used as a febrifuge, 130. 



Kekule houses, 190. 



'Km, 85, 186, 196. 



Kenai, their ethnographical status, 15. 



K3S, their use, 87. 



Kettles, prehistoric bark, 125. 



Kinnikinik, its berry eaten, 128. 



ICnaia-kho-tana, their ethnographical status, 



15- 

 Knap-sacks of the Carriers, 148. 

 Knives, salmon, 51— skinning, 51 — carving or 

 . working, 52. 



'Kthitzcfi, their make and working, 87. 

 Kutchin, identicnl with Loucheux, 15. 



Labrets, 170. 



Ladles, 75 — how made, 76. 



Lances, known to prehistoric Carriers, 149. 



Land-locked salmon, how captured, 74. 



Language, the chief characteristic of man, 21.. 



— of the Carrier subdivisions a little different,. 



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