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[Bull. 192] 



Skeleton, human, 35, 202 

 Skewers, bone, 149 

 Skins, 15, 57, 103, 104 



as clothing, 87 



dressing of, 108 



mosaic, 172 



tanned, 2, 108 

 Slab, decorated wooden, 140 (fig.) 

 Slag, 51, 168 



Slate, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 105, 106, 107, 

 130, 131, 183 



fragments, 47, 00 



grinding, 127, 209 



metamorphic, 130 



rings, 162 



sawed, 66, 113, 127 



worked, 183 

 Slave killers (war clubs), 123 

 Slaves, 2, 10, 11, 23, 67, 91 

 Smallpox epidemics, 6, 8, 23, 24, 25, 27, 



32 

 Smelt, 154 

 Smith, H. I., Ill 

 Smith, M. W., 130, 131 

 Smoke, disposal of, 70, 72, 73 

 Smokehouse, 44, 67, 70, 71, 72, 127 

 Snapper, kind of rattle, 172 

 Snowfall, 14 



Snufif mortars, wooden, 111 

 Soapberries, 178, 184 

 Social Science Research Council, x 

 Society for American Archaeology, 5, 



187 

 Socket pieces, 137-138 



carved bone, 166 (fig.) 

 Soil, 21, 22, 24, 58 

 Songs, 9, 10, 20 



Sons-in-law, customs regarding, 9 

 Southern Tutchone, see Tutchone. 

 Spatula, wooden, 50 

 Spearhead, barbed, 140 (fig.) 



bone, 125 



copper, 88, 124 



double-edged, 125 



iron, 10, 25, 89, 123-135 



slate, 124, 125 



wooden, 51, 146 

 Spears, 10, 123, 124, 143 



bird, 145 



fish, 151 



three-pronged, 151-154 

 Spike, iron, 25, 88, 100 

 Spinner, fish, 153 

 "Spirit boards," 174 

 Spirits, guardian, 212 

 Spoons, mountain-goat horn, 116 

 Spruce, 14, 33, 52, 104, 177, 178, 205, 206 



bark containers, 178 



roots, uses of, 50, 51, 70, 103, 178 

 Squid, used for bait, 149 

 Stake, wooden, 57 

 Stamp, wooden, 116 

 Sta^Adi, branch of Hinyedi, 8, 27 

 Steelhead (fish), 15 

 Steller, Georg Wilhelm,''89 



Stockade, 23 



Stone, clay, for paint, 116 



beads, 159, 160 



club head and picks, 122-123 



incised, 60 



lamps, 117-123 



notched, 150-151 



objects, carved and incised, 170 

 (figs.), 171 



rubbed, 57, 64 



sawed, 114 



slabs, 54, 63 

 Storage houses, 50 (list), 51 (fist), 72 

 Storms, native beliefs about, 91 

 Strange, Capt. James, 180 

 Strawberries, wild, 14, 31, 33 

 "Strawberry Leaf," native village, 25 

 Strike-a-light, quartz, 66, 122 

 String, sinew, 178 

 Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, 39, 79, 



84 (table) 

 Structures, burned wooden, 39 

 Stselax, 98 



Studs, silver, as labrets, 163 

 Stuhinuk ("Stickleback" or "Cannery 



Creek"), 28, 29 

 Subsurface pits, see Pits. 

 Summit Lake, 11, 23, 24 

 Supplies, storage of, 67-68 

 Surface pit, see Pit. 

 Suria, Thomds de, 163 

 Surround, hunting method, 136 



Suska, native village, 21 

 Swans, 15 



bone, 168 



femur, 167 

 Swan ton, John R., 8, 18, 165 

 Sweat bath, 40, 41, 45, 64, 67, 71 

 Syphillis, lesions of, 202 



Taboos, 67, 188 



Tagish Indians, 168 



Tagish Lake, 14 



Tahltan Indians, 5 (map) 



Tallow, 117 



Tanacross on upper Tanana, 141, 203 



Tana Glacier, 7 



Tanaina Indians, 75, 108, 124, 136, 164, 



174, 177, 179, 185 

 Tanana River culture, 14, 123, 141, 149, 



203 

 See also Dixthada. 

 Tanana Valley, 92, 161 

 Tana River, 7 

 Tanis Lake, 28 

 Tanis River, 28, 29 

 Tarr, Ralph Stockman, 15, 16 

 Tarr, Ralph Stockman, and Martin, 



Lawrence, 16, 17, 18, 19, 33 

 Tawah Creek (wrong name), 24 

 T'awal Stream, 23 

 Tcukanedi, Eagle sib, 6 

 Tebenkov, M., 17, 23, 28, 29 



