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[Bull. 178 



Blindness 



by tribes, 34: 

 Hopi, 180 

 Huichol, 187 

 Navaho, 180 

 Opata, 184 

 Papago, 182 

 Pima, 183 

 Pueblo, 189 

 Tarahumare, 185 

 Zuni, 181 

 Chitimacha cures for, note on, 43 : 



351 

 Fox treatment of, 72: 53 

 summary of, among tribes, 34: 

 174 f. 

 Blind one and the lame one, Cochiti 



tales of, 98: 166, 167 

 Blisters, formulas for treatment of, 



99 : 167, 210, 250 

 Blizzard, death of Indians in, 83: 32 

 Blocksberg, place name outside the 



Sinkyone territory, 78: 145 

 Blondel, M., 43: 205 

 Blood 



human, power of, 39 : 248 



of chicken, ceremonial use of, 79 



35, 36 

 of chicken, magic power of, 79 



39 

 offering of, among Zapotecs, 28 



277 

 sucking, treatment for sick, Houma, 



43: 289 

 See also Bleeding ; Blood-letting. 

 Blood Indians 



country occupied by, 77 : 27, 32 

 numbers of, 77: 32 

 See also Blackfoot Confederacy; 

 Kainah. 

 Bloodland, house mounds near, 76: 57 

 Blood-letting, reason for, 85 : 11 

 Blood money, among the Haida, 29 : 92 

 Blood revenge, among the Fuegians, 



63 : 159, 173, 174 f., 178 

 Bloods, see Blood Indian. 

 Bloody Island, 78 : 231 

 Blount, a Florida chief, 73 : 407 

 Blount, — , on Sara inroads on the Tus- 



carora, 22:60 

 Blowguns 



of the Choctaw, 48:18 

 use of, to kill game, 43 : 346 

 Blowing Cave, 76:136 

 Blowing tube, use of, in medicine, 99 : 



58,60 

 Blowpipes 



of ancient American natives, 3: 



13 

 use of, in hunting, 79 : 7, 44 

 Bluacacay, Cusabo personal name, 73: 



20 

 Blue, Ariz., ruins near, 35 : 52-58 

 Bluebell, among tlie Tewa, 55 : 54 

 Blue Cloud, songs by, 61 : 288, 511, 516 

 Blue Creek, 78:70,73 



Blue Earth River, Sisseton settlements 



at mouth of, 83 : 23 

 Blue Hawk, sickness caused by, 90: 



90 

 "Blue Holes," Chitimacha, 43 : 355 

 Blue-jay 



and lo'i, Chinook myths of, 20: 



153-160, 161-171, 172-182 

 and robin, Chinook myth of, 20: 

 149-152 

 Blue Lakes, references to, 78: 113, 236 

 Blue Man, power of, 99 : 24 

 Blue Nose, 78:165 

 Blueotter, Sidney, a singer, 75: 17, 18, 



19 

 Blue Paint, finding of, and how a cer- 

 tain creek received its name, Tlingit 

 myth, 39:46f. 

 Blue River, caves on, 78: 111 

 Blue River region 



basketry of the, 35 : 25 



dress of inhabitants of, 35 : 20, 21, 



24 

 flora of, 35:8 

 kivas of, 35 : 18 

 petroglyphs in, 35 : 27 

 pueblo types of, 35: 15 

 rains in, 35: 42-57 

 well-like constructions in, 35: 18 

 Blue Spring Cave, 76: 18 

 Bluewater Cave, 76 : 134 

 Bluff City, caves in vicinity of, 76 : 124, 



125 

 Bluff Creek, Yurok villages reported 



near, 78:18 

 Blumenbach, Johann Friederich 



cited on European chamecephals 

 and Zuyder Zee Island skulls, 

 33 : 42, 43 

 the five races of, 40, pt. 1: 7 

 Blunt, see Blount. 



Boa, serpent, belief concerning, 79: 61 

 Boards 



found in Ruins 2 and 3, 65: 119 

 graves covered with, 83: 14 

 Boas, Prof. Franz 



acknowledgment to, 15: vni; 40, 

 pt. 1 : 972 ; 40, pt. 2 : 8, 303 ; 99 : 



XV 



Chinook material of, 15 : v 



cited, 67 : 22, 66, 76, 78, 88, 100, 106, 



118, 124, 126, 128, 134, 158, 235; 



98: 201 205, 206, 213, 215, 218, 



223, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 237, 



243, 244, 245, 246 

 cited as an authority on Kwakiutl 



music, 53:9 

 Cochiti tales obtained from, 98: 



IX 



Cochiti tales recorded in text by, 

 98: 2], 32, 51, 66, 72, 84, 88, 90, 

 101, 109, 110, 111, 118, 167, 170, 

 201, 249, 251, 254, 255 



cooperation of, 30, pt. 1: ix; 30, 

 pt. 2 : in 



