INDEX 



265 



Kurath, Gertrude P., xiii. 10, 15, 16, 19, 

 23, 46, 49, 62 



Lacrosse, game, 8 

 Lake Erie, 65 

 Lassitude, cure for, 14 

 Leggings, 5 

 Lewis, Thomas, 73 

 Library of Congress, xi, xii, 77 

 Licking Creek, near Allegheny River, 65 

 Lingelbach, William E., xv 

 Little Red Wing, adapted song, 18 

 Little Water Medicine Ritual, 8, 11, 12, 

 27 



dance, 30 

 Logan, Joseph, 47, 73 

 Longhouses, xi-xv, 1, 2, 3, 9, 16-21, 

 22, 50, 53, 62, 69, 71, 72, 77, 

 101, 104, 106, 112 



and the people, 1-2 



Mammals, imitations of, 65-66 



Mandan Indians, 61, 66 



Maple Festival, 69 



Maple Planting Festival, 19 



Maple sugar, 69 



Marching song, 9, 11, 16, 81, 89, 91 



Marriage Dance, see Dance. 



Maskers, 9-12, 58, 63, 109 



See also False Faces, Husk Faces. 

 Masks, corn husk, 10 



costume, 10 

 Mason, Bernard, 4 

 Maximilian, 76 

 Medicine, salt clay administered as, 13, 



66 

 Medicine Company or Society of Sha- 

 mans, 11-13, 74 

 Medicine Men's Rite, 23, 27, 33, 70 

 Medicine rites, xiv, xv, 2, 9-16, 23, 



27, 46, 54, 58, 60, 64, 70, 103- 



110, 194-195 

 Menomini Indians, 69 

 Men's shamanistic medicine societies, 



60 

 Meskwaki Indians, 66 



territory of, 65 

 Messenger, dance character, 13 

 Messenger's songs, 11, 12 

 Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and 



Letters, xiii 

 Midpantheon, rituals addressed to, 6-9, 



27, 36, 38, 40, 41, 55, 63, 73, 81- 



90, 91-94 

 Midwest, 46 



Mime, 9, 10, 12, 13, 59, 64, 65-72 

 Mississippi River, 65 

 Moccasin game, 37, 38, 39, 41, 74, 94 

 Moccasins, 5 

 Mohawk Indians, xiv 

 Moieties, xiv, xv, 1, 16, 27, 50, 67, 71 



I, clans composing, xv 



II, clans composing, xv 

 Morgan, Lewis H., 1, 24, 76 



Music, analysis of, 27-49, 62 



melodic contours of, 44-45 



melodies in, 37-40 



meter of, 40 



one or two themes in, 43-44 



ornamentation of, 38 



recordings, list of, xi 



relation of action to, 58-59 



relation of patterns of, to present 

 ritual functions, 62-63 



structure of, 40-44 



See also: Song; songs. 

 Muskrat, 84, 106 

 Mutual aid societies, xiv 



Naked Dance, see Shaking-a-bushDance. 



Nedrow, N.Y., xiii 



Neuritis, cure for, 14 



Neurotic spasms, cure for, 13 



New Fish Dance, see Dance. 



New Mexico Pueblo Indians, 66 



New Women's Shuffle Dance, see Dance. 



New York, xiii, xiv, 1, 65 



Officials, ritual, xiv, xv, 4, 10, 13, 50, 



71, 101, 104 

 Ohgiwe Ceremony, 15, 41, 48, 88 

 Ohsweken, xii 

 Oklahoma, 45 

 Oklahoma Round Victory Dance, see 



Dance. 

 Old Fish Dance, see Dance. 

 Oneida Indians, xiv, xv 

 Onondaga Indians, xiv, 64, 67 

 Onondaga longhouse, xiii, 2, 73 

 Onondaga Valley, 2, 73 

 Ontario, 65, 73 

 Osage Indians, 8 

 Owl, 84 



Paddles, wooden, 10 



Parker, Arthur C, 14, 76 



Passenger Pigeon Dance (dj^hgowa 



6enQ'i'), see Dance. 

 Patient, part in dance, 12 

 Pennsylvania, xiv 

 Peters, Gordon, 73 



Phonetic transcriptions, note on, xvi 

 Phratries, see Moieties. 

 Pigeon, Passenger, 69 

 Pigeon (Cobimbidae) , 69, 70 

 Pipe smoking, medicinal, 13 

 Plains Calumet Dance, see Dance. 

 Plains Indians, 45, 62, 66, 67 

 Planters, Women's Society, 2, 6, 16, 17, 



19, 70 

 Planting Festival, 4 

 Plants, 65, 70, 72, 102 

 Potatoes, 16 



Prayers, 5, 16, 50, 51, 71 

 Pulsation, dance and song, 4, 15, 34, 38, 



47, 59, 63, 64 



Quaker Bridge, N.Y., xiv, 1 

 Quaker missionaries, xiv, 70, 71 

 Qualla Cherokee Reservation, N.C., xiii 



