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Kiowan stock, range of, 251 

 Knives, types of (pi. 4), 51; Algon- 

 kian, 54 



Labor, application of, 34 



La Hontan, map locates Erie tribe. 

 272 



Laidlaw brothers, 137 



Laidlaw, Col. George E., mentioned, 

 8; 144, pipes described by, 195 



Lake Erie, shore, 246; early occupa- 

 tion, 247; encroachment of, 252 



Language, American, not Asiatic, 23 ; 

 stock languages, 25, 27; compared, 

 104 



Larkin, Dr Frederick, mentioned, 84, 

 90 



Laurentian Iroquois, 106; form com- 

 pact, 158 



Leatherstocking chapter, 422 



Lee, E. Gordon, mentioned, n, 422 



Legends, of Iroquois, 130 



Le Roy earthwork, 310-13 



List of sites, incomplete, 10 



List of artifacts, 43 ; Richmond Mills, 

 202, 203; Silverheels, 226 



Longhouse, the, 159 



Loveland, R. D., collection, 317, 338, 

 339, 355, 450 



McCullough, Martin, farm of, 172; 

 picture of pit on, 171 ; map of site, 

 173 



McGuire, Joseph D., cited, 282 



McLean, J. P., cited, 83 



Madison, Bishop, mentioned, 83 



Madisonville, Ohio, site and artifacts, 

 96; fishhooks from, 119 



Man, progress of, 14; an artisan, 15; 

 ancestors of, 17; made by use of 

 tools, 18 ; distribution of through- 

 out America, 18; migrations of, 

 21-22; age of,. 39; early evidences 

 of, 451 



Maps, topographic, use of, 451 



Marine shells, 217 



Masketts, of shell, 108; of stone, 397 



Massawomekes, of Smith, 274 



Mastodon bones, 246 



Material culture, origin, 13, 14; area 

 of Algonkian, 47, 49; Eskimoan, 

 79; mound builder, 94; Iroquoian, 

 106; of Iroquois contrasted, 130; 

 of Iroquois, 160 ; early evidences, 



45i 



Matinicock point, 344 



Mattern, Joseph, collection of, 450 



Maxwell, Thomas, mentioned, 8 



Maynard, Julius, mentioned, 317 



Metal casting, in Mexico and South 

 America, 452 



Metallic articles (see brass, iron, 

 copper) of European origin, 452 



Metapodial scraper, from Richmond 

 Mills, 96, 115, 199; from coastal 

 site, 346 



Metate (mealing stone), general 

 notes on, 415; Algonkian, 60; Iro- 

 quoian, 416 



Method of excavating, 252, 256 



Mica, of mound culture, 85; not used 

 by Iroquois, 132 



Micmac pipes, 68 



Micmac tribe, 158 



Midcolonial site in Erie county (Sil- 

 verheels site), 207-37 



Migrations, routes of early, 21, 22; 

 not deliberate, 23 ; natural course 

 of, 24; to South America, 40; to 

 east coast, 40; of mound-building 

 Indians, 94; of Iroquois, 96; old 

 theory of Iroquois, 106 ; of Iro- 

 quois, 155, 161 



Mills, George Rodman, mentioned, 

 187; work of, 190 



Mills, William C, mentioned, 8, 84, 

 137; description by, 199; work of, 

 370 



Mohawk-Onondaga, 106; pottery of, 

 J 34; pipes of, 148 



Mohawk, pottery, 137, 158; customs, 



245 



Monitor pipe, 90 (pi. 21), 91; not 

 usual in Iroquoian area, 132 ; pic- 

 ture of (fig. 19), 141; in ossuary, 

 3i6 



Moonstone, general notes on, 416 

 Moore, Dr Clarence B., work of, 84, 

 370 



