INDEX 



171 



Berries, 60, 62 



juice of, 62 

 Betting, see Gambling. 

 Biggar, H. P., editor, 8 

 Birchbark, bags of, 24 



bowls, 23, 59 



canoes, 22 



slielters, 23 

 Bird, supernatural (ohguione), 121 

 Birds, 109, 129. 140 

 Biscuits, 87 

 Bissiriniens, 19, 28 

 Blackberries, 62, 70 

 Blackberry Feast, 79 

 Blankets, 26, 27, 89, 112, 113, 116 



of skin, 16 

 Blood, used as glue, 60 

 Bloodroot, 84 

 Blueberries, 70 

 Boars, 22 

 Body paint, 21, 98 

 Bowl Game, 72, 109, 114, 115-116 



played to cure sick, 115 



players, 115 

 Bowls, 68, 69, 74 



bark, 59 



birchbark, 23, 59 



tree knot, 67 



wooden, used for bowl game, 115 

 Bows, 23, 103, 124, 137, 140, 144, 145 

 Bows and arrows, 30, 65, 66, 142, 154 

 Bowstrings, from animal guts, 30 

 Boys, 122, 124 

 Bracelets, 59, 77, 136, 142 



wampum, 20, 21, 126, 138, 147 

 Bread, 70, 73, 87 



buried with dead, 130, 142 



chewed, 70 



green corn leaf, 70 

 Br^beuf, Jean de, 5, 6, 160 



martyrdom of, 39 



Relation of, 5, 6 

 Breecheloth, 15, 20, 76, 77, 111 

 Bressani, Francesco Glosepi)e, 55, 160 

 Buffalo Society, 107 

 Burial, 130-132 



ceremony, 132 



customs, 15, 130-132 



ground, 15, 60, 130 



house, 131 



ossuary, 134, 135 



scaffold, 131 

 Bustard, 66 

 Butternut bark, used for canoes, 23 



Cache pits, 24, 41, 42, 61 

 Cahiagu^, Huron village, 150 

 Cakes, 62, 131 



bran, 73 

 Canoes, 22, 23, 26, 56, 59, 63, 65, 86, 87, 

 93, 110, 112 



birchbark, 22 



descriptions of, 22 



dugout, 23 



slippery elm or butternut, 23 



Captives, eaten by Indians, 29, 90 



killing of, 31 

 Varantouans, Iroquoian-speaking tribe, 



16 

 Carhaffouha, Huron village, 149 

 Garmaron, Huron village, 149 

 Cartier, Jacques, 3, 16 

 Casks, storage, 61 

 Cat, present of, 87 

 Catarrh, treatment for. So 

 Catholicism, Roman, 88 

 Cat Nation (Erie Indians), 10, 14, 16, 17 

 Cattail, 155 



down, 152 

 Cattaraugus Reservation, 79, 122 

 Cayuga Indians, 10, 17, 18, 121 



See also Iroquois Indians. 

 Cedar, 12, 40 



bark, 40 



ribs of, used in canoes, 22 



shields of, 30 



white, 23 

 Cemetery (agosayS), 130, 131, 132, 135, 



136, 144 

 Ceremonies : 



Adonwe', 72, 75 



Akhrendoiaen, 98 



Awataerohi, 75, 97, 104, 105, 106 



burial, 43, 130-132, 133 



calendric, 12, 13, 79, 87 



curing, 75, 93, 101-102, 106, 107, 108 



death, 139 



Four Sacred, 39, 72 



Green Corn, 133 



Iroquois Condolence, 45, 46, 54, 75, 

 134, 137 



marriage, 47, 126-127 



mating, 101, 106-107, 113 



Midewiwin, 99 



Midwinter, 39, 65, 67, 72, 80, 103, 

 109, 110, 133 



moon, 79 



Raspberry, 62 



resuscitation, 45 



Strawberry, 62 



Thunder, 103, 115 



War, 36, 43, 75 



See also Dances ; False Faces. 

 Chafe, Wallace L., 1, 75, 81, 91 

 Champlain, Samuel de, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 

 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 29, 40, 41, 

 42, 47, 48, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 

 65, 69, 70, 71, 72, 91, 92, 104, 105, 

 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 123, 124, 

 125, 127, 128, 129, 131, 134, 136, 

 140 

 Chant, personal, 39 

 Charcoal, used in making fire, 24 



powdered, used in tattooing, 15 

 Charms, 91, 92, 99, 115, 116, 120-122, 136 



change in shape of, 121 



extraction of, 117-118 



himting, 74, 121 



inheritance of, 121 



love, 121 



trade in, 122 



witchcraft, 121 



