1892-93.] 



NOTES OX THE WESTEKN D^Nlfis. 



217 



Philology, its importance as an ethnographical 

 criterion, 21 — its bearing on archaeology, 32. 



Pictographs, 206. 



Pilling on the word " Athapaskan," 9. 



Pipes, stone, 36. 



Plan of the monograph, 6. 



Plants, those the economic value of which 

 is not appreciated unnamed, 127 — which are 

 eaten by the Western Denes? 128. 



Potlatch, of comparatively recent origin, 125. 

 Pottery, unknown among the Western Denes, 



35- 

 Powder pouches, 148. 



Powers on the Hupa, 20. 



Prehistoric ages not strictly successive, 137. 



Prognostications common among the Carriers, 

 no. 



Pubescent girls, their dress, 165 — their drink- 

 ing tubes, 81 — their head scratchers, 82 — 

 their peculiar observances, I07. 



Purgatives, native, 130. 



Q- 



Quintilian on Language, 21. 



R. 



Rabbit snares, 103 — skins, how utilized, 156, 

 164. 



Rattles, 118. 



Red willow, used as wattle, 84— its medical 

 properties, 131. 



Rings, 140, 166. 



Robe, ceremonial, 179. 



Rock inscriptions, 206. 



Rose, its medical propertieSj 132. 



s. 



Salmon, species of, 73 — how caught, 84 — how 

 cured, 92 — how kept, 49, 196. 



Salmon fishing, 84. 



Salmon oil, how obtained, 92. 



Salmon pits or cellars, 197. 



Salmon roe, how prepared, 197. 



Salmon weirs, 85. 



Sarcees, how they separated from the Beavers, 

 II — their present habitat, 15 — their popu- 

 lation one hundred years ago, 29. 



Satchets, 146. 



. Scaffoldings, on the banks of rivers, 91 — of 

 the Tse'kehne, 197. 



Scoops, 156. 



Scrapers, stone, 49 — how made, 50— bone, 

 for the fat, 68 — horn, for the same, 70 — 

 hair, 69— cambium, 76. 



Sedatives, native, 131. 



Semilkameen Indians partly descended from 

 the TsiiKoh'tin, 24. 



15 



Service-berry, how preserved, 125. 

 Shamans, their head gear, 181. 

 Shields, 117. 



Shushwap Indians, their former relations with 

 the TsijKoh'tin, 23. 



Signalling in the woods, 210. 



Sinkers, rude and uncarved, 36, 



Skin tanning, 49, 69, 145. 



Skull-crackers, stone, 64. 



Slaves, their habitat and numbers, 16. 



Sleeping place in the lodge, 187. 



Slickstones, 49. 



Smoking, originally unknown, 36. 



Snares, bear, 99 — cariboo, 100 — fox, 102 — 



marmot, 103— rabbit, 103— waterfowl, 104 



— how prepared, 107. 



Snaring devices, their details useful, 99. 



Snow-shoes, formerly practically unknown 

 among the Carriers, 151 — earliest model, 152 

 — modern types, 152 — how made, 153 — of 

 the children, 154. 



Snow shovels, 116. 



Snow walking sticks, 155. 



Soap-berrv, how prepared for eating, 128. 



Solutrian-like implements, 63. 



Sore eyes, native remedy against, 132. 



Southern Denes, long separated from the 

 Northern Dene, 12 — confused ideas as to 

 their ethnographical divisions, 13. 



Spear-heads, 62. 



Spindles, 114. 



Spokeshaves, 144. 



Spoons, 76. 



Spruce, its shoots used as febrifuge, 130. 



Spruce root-weaving, 134. 



Steel daggers in prehistoric times, 142. 



Stockings, naiive counterpart of, 165. 



Stone implements, in use among historical 



nations, 42 — contemporaneous with copper 



implements, 137. 



Store-houses, 196. 



Strings, of the bows, how made, 58 — of the 

 snares, how made, 104. 



Sturgeon, how caught, 75. 



STtnti, how cooked, 116. 



Superstitious observances of the hunters and 

 the women, 106, 165. 



Swaddling clothes of the Carrier babes, 133. 



Sweat-houses, 197. 



Sweet-flag, how eaten, 129. 



T. 



Tacitus on the arms of the Fenni, 43. 

 Takhepie, wrong readings of their name, 30. 

 Tanaing, how done, 49, 69, 145. 



