INDEX 



Abrams, Deforest, 22 



Adonwe, individual chants, 91 (text and 



translation) 

 See also Chants. 

 Akron, N.Y., xiv 

 Alabama Indians, 68 

 Algonquian Indians, xiii, xiv, 45, 68 

 Allegany Reservation, xiii, xiv, 1, 21, 67, 



73 

 Allegany State Park, xii, xiii, xiv, 67 

 Allegheny River, xiv, 1, 65, 70 

 Alligator cycle, 22 

 AUigator Dance, see Dance. 

 Allouez, Claude, 65 

 American Philosophical Society Library, 



XI, XIII, XV 



Animal cures, dances of, 60-61 



Animal mating, dances of, 60-61 



Animal medicine rites, xiv, 9-13 



Animals, mystic, 14 



Animal spirits, shamanistic cures ad- 

 dressed to, 9-13 



Antiphony, 4, 5, 6, 9, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 

 23, 25, 30, 33, 34, 43, 44, 45, 46, 

 62, 63, 71, 118-120, 140, 142, 159, 

 168, 173-176, 216, 234, 237, 

 240-242, 253 (figs.) 



Arrows, 68 



Artistry, 60, 71-72 



Ashes, 10, 103, 104, 109 



Ashes Stirring Ritual, see Rituals. 



Audubon, John James, 75 



Automobiles, owned by Indians, 1 



Bean Dance, see Dance. 

 Beans, 16, 17, 20, 70 



See also Festivals. 

 Bear, claws of, 70 



dreams of, 13 



teeth, 70 



Woodland black, 66 

 Bear clan, xv 

 Bear Dance, see Dance. 

 Bear Society Dance Songs, 13 

 Beaver clan, xv 

 Bench, singer's, 27, 53, 54, 70 

 Benches, wooden, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 16, 27 

 Berries, 2, 70, 111 



juice of, sacramental, 13, 67 

 Bird rites, 37 

 Birds, 67-69 

 Black, Edward, 2, 38, 46, 47, 48, 73, 91, 



93, 94 

 Blair, Emma, editor, 67, 75 

 Bow and arrow, 5 



Bowl game, 18 



Box turtle, used in dance, 16 



Breechclouts, 10 



beaded, 5 

 Broom, Leonard, 77 

 Broom, used in dances, 16 

 Buck, George, 73 

 Buck, WiUiam, 73 

 Buffalo, N.Y., 1, 65 

 Buffalo (Bison bison), 65-66, 70 



dreams of, 12 



Plains, 65 



Woodland, 66 

 Buffalo Creek, near Buflfalo, N.Y., 65 

 Buffalo Dance, see Dance. 

 Buffalo Society Dance Songs, 12-13, 



30, 74 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, x-xii 

 Burgess, Thornton W., 75 

 Bushy Heads, 10 

 Butler, Sadie, xiii, 2, 73 



Cane, used in dance, 7, 10 



Carmichael, Leonard, ii 



CaroHna, North and South, 65 



Carry-out-the-kettle Dance, see Dance. 



Catlin, George, 66, 75 



Cattaraugus origin of songs, 19, 21, 46, 



91, 94 

 Cattaraugus Reservation, 1, 2, 19, 21 

 Cayuga Indians, xiv, 21, 26, 73 

 Cayuga longhouse, 73 

 Ceremonies, Coldspring, xiii, xv, 1, 

 3-6, 45 



cycles of, 2 



medicine, xv, 2, 10, 64 



summer food, xv, 2 



war, XI, 8 



women planter's towisas, xiii, xv 

 Chafe, Wallace L., xiv, xv, xvi, 73-75 

 Champlain, Samuel de, 70 

 Changing-a-rib Dance (deswand^nyg ), 



see Dance. 

 Chants, fifth, 34 



fourth, 34 



individual, 30, 73, 61-62 



men's, 6, 11, 38, 54, 105-106, 121, 

 133, 200 



monotone, 34 



prayer, 5 



second, 34 



semitone, 34 



seventh and octave, 34 



sixth, 34 



third, 34 



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