INDEX 



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Belcher, Capt. Sir Edward, 11, 16 

 Bella Coola Indians, 75, 92, 98, 104, 113, 



129, 130, 146, 158, 163, 167 

 Bench, wooden, 58, 67, 68, 69, 73, 74 

 Bercsford, William, 20 

 Bering Glacier, 7 

 Bering Sea, 210 

 Bering's expedition, 202, 203 

 Bering Strait, 179, 203, 209 

 Berries, 14, 72, 75, 121, 178 

 Bidarkas (boats), 10 



rib, 50, 182 (fig.), 183, 184 

 two-hole, 184 

 "Big Town of the Animals," native 



hunting village, 27 

 "Big Town of the Animals," river, 27 

 "Big Valley," sealing camp, 22 

 Bin, for fire-cracked rocks, 55 

 Birchbark, 178 

 Bird bone, 148, 153, 181 

 awl, 47, 57 

 beads, 159, 160 

 cut, 21 



point, 48, 57, 135, 146, 147 

 scraper, 108 

 tube, 50, 167-168 

 Birds, 15, 77, 138 

 aquatic, 154 

 Birket-Smith, Kaj, 101, 103, 105, 112, 

 113, 117, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 

 133, 136, 138, 143, 151, 153, 154, 

 164, 165, 167, 174, 175, 177, 179, 

 180, 187, 195, 204 

 Birket-Smith, Kaj, and Laguna, Fred- 

 erica de, 3, 4, 11, 40, 41, 73, 75, 

 76, 92, 93, 101, 103, 104, 105, 

 111, 116, 120, 122, 131, 133, 136, 

 142, 143, 151, 161, 163, 165, 167, 

 168, 174, 177, 179, 180, 181, 207 

 Birnirk culture, 177 

 Birth pit, 56 



Blades, barbed slate, 25, 64, 123, 124, 

 129-130, 202 

 bone, 123, 124, 125, 126 (fig.), 127 

 chipped, 101, 130, 131 

 copper, 123, 124 

 double edged, 125-127, 128 (fig.), 



129 

 iron, 51, 57, 123, 126 (fig.), 127 

 leaf-shaped, 130, 131, 141 

 slate, 47, 50, 51, 123, 125, 127, 128 



(fig.), 129, 130, 147, 201 

 split rib, 147 

 stemmed, 127 

 stone, 26, 123. 202 

 triangular, 127, 130, 131 

 weapon, 123-124 

 wooden, 50, 182 (fig.), 183 

 See also Knife blade. 

 Blankets, 35, 72, 180-181 



cedar-bark and wool, 195, 197 

 Chilkat, 171, 180, 188, 189, 190 

 (fig.), 191, 192, 193, 195, 196, 

 197, 198 

 colors used in, 198 

 commercial, 68 



Blankets — Continued 



Copenhagen, 187, 196, 197 



designs of, 190-193, 195-198 



embroidered, 172 



geometric-patterned, 194-198 



goat wool, 180, 192, 194 



intermediate, 199 



Knight Island, see Yakutat. 



Ottawa, 194 



"Swift," 193, 195, 197 



tasseled, 196 



Tsimsliian, 187, 196, 197, 198 



white, 172 



woolen, 180, 181 



Yakutat, x,87, 181, 187-199, 190, (fig.) 

 Blanket weaving, 171, 180, 188-190 



(fig.) -192 

 Blizhni Point, 16 

 Blockhouse, Russian, 11 

 Blueberries, 14 

 Boards, 55, 56, 70 



pattern, 180, 196 

 Boas, Franz, xi, 195, 196 

 Boats, 14 



skin, 6, 7, 184, 185 



See also Bidarkas; Canoes; Kayaks. 

 Bocharov, Dmitri, 9, 10 

 Bodkms, 155 



bone, 156 (fig.), 157, 162 

 Bolas, 151 

 Bolt, iron, 27, 203 



Bone, animal, 36, 39, 40, 46, 59, 77, 108, 

 146, 147, 181 



beads, 159-160 



carved, 137, 154 



catch, 156 (fig.), 157, 164 



charred, 48, 50 



fused, 51 



inlays, 69 



mammal, 39, 77, 79-83, 181 



necklaces, 167 



pendant, 166 (fig.) 



pin, 155 



points, 147-149 



rings, 162 



shaft fragments, 148-149 



worked, 47, 51, 56, 94, 97, 99, 181 

 Boolingin, Russian cartographer, 11 

 Borden, Charles E., x, 98, 101, 104, 105, 

 112, 114, 121, 127, 129, 131, 134, 

 142, 154, 157, 160, 162, 163, 174, 

 185, 204, 208, 209, 210 

 Bottle, glass Hquor, 25 

 Bows and arrows, 138-147 



Athabaskan, 138 



hemlock, 138 



toy, 64, 139, 140 (fig.) 

 Bowstring, sinew, 138, 178 

 Boxes, cooking, 68 



fragments of, and band of grass, 

 176 (fig.), 177 



sunken, 51, 55-58 (ILst), 56 



urine, 68 



wooden, 50, 51, 55, 64, 68, 87, 175, 

 176 (fig.), 177 

 Boys, sleeping place for, 67 



