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Poultices 



use of, among Maricopa, 34 : 248 

 use of, among Pima, 34 : 245, 246 

 use of, among San Carlos Apache, 

 34 : 233 

 Poultry 



among the Houma, 43 : 286, 289 

 among the Natchez, 43: 73, 153, 



156, 211 

 sacrifice of, 22 : 63 

 white, bred for feathers, 91 : 96 

 Pounding stones 



description of, 41 : 41 

 found in Cliff Palace, 51 : 66 

 Pounds, buffalo, 77 : 5 f ., 26 

 Pounka 



a synonym for Pawokti, 73 : 131 

 a Tawasa town, 73: 131 

 an Indian nation, 43: 32 f. 

 Pourtales, Count F. de, Lake Monroe 



bones discovered by, 33 : 19 

 Poverty as a factor in tuberculosis, 42 : 



31 f. 

 PowamQ festival, incident of, 41 : 10 

 Poway, a source of California place 



name, 78 : 896 

 Powder River, Bruits on, 83: 33 

 Powell, Rev. James, letter of Big Elk to, 



11:66 

 Powell, Maj. J. W. 



acknowledgment to, 13 : iv ; 15 : 



viii 

 attitude of, toward moimd explora- 

 tion, 4 : 4, 5 

 books in library of, 1 : v ; 5 : v ; 



6: iv, vi ; 9: iv ; 13: iv 

 cited as an authority on southwest- 

 ern region, 34 : 2 

 connection of, with Taensa lan- 

 guage controversy, 43: 11 

 copper plate found in Illinois by, 



8:30 

 extract from diary of, 82 : 66 

 on arrowmaking, 60 : 306, 310. 311 

 on Pueblo Indian environment, 54 : 



58 

 publication of papers on native 

 American writing arranged for 

 by, 28:9 

 reference to, 92 : 74 

 researches of, 68 : 9 

 ruin described by, 82: 127 f., 140, 



141 

 ruins discovered by, 82: 140 

 studies of, 60 : xv 

 Powell, Wilfred, on perforating stones, 



60 : 365 

 Powers, Stephen 



anthropological value of work of, 



78:ix 

 in bibliography, 34 : 420 

 on arrowmaking by California In- 

 dians, 60 : 321 

 survivor of a Kern Lake tribe 

 found by, 78: 478 f. 



Poweshiek, Horace 



English version of text by, 85 : 122 

 member of organization, 89 : 4 

 paraphrase by, 85: 101; 87: 7; 



89:1 

 translation based on English ver- 

 sion of, 72: 9 

 translation by, 85: 123; 95: 47, 

 48 

 Poweshiek, Ida, member of organiza- 

 tion, 89:4 

 Poweshiek, Jim, a singer, 89 : 3 

 Poweshiek, Jonas, member of organiza- 

 tion, 89:4 

 Poweshiek, Willy, member of organiza- 

 tion, 89 : 3 

 Powhatan, Chief, described by Capt. 



John Smith, 69 : 36 

 Powhatan Confederacy 



attitude of, toward the English, 



22:27 

 boundary line of the, 69 : 16 

 habitat of the, 22 : 7 

 hostilities of the, 22: 28 

 of the Algonquian stock, 17 : 5 

 Powhatan County, Va., archeology of, 



23:9 

 Powhatan language 



lost at the present time, 17 : 6 

 vocabulary of, recorded by Capt. 



John Smith, 17: 13 f. 

 works in, 13 : 406 

 Powhatan Tribe 



a Virginia Indian tribe, 17: 9 

 burial customs of the, 71 : 25-29 

 country occupied by the, 69 : 37 

 customs of the, 69 : 32 

 meaning of the name, 69 : 37 

 method of arrow making by, 60: 



316 

 Monacan alliance against the, 23: 



33 

 mortuary customs of the, 23: 71 

 villages of the, 69 : 31 

 Powhoge, a San Ildefonso village, 32: 



12 f. 

 Powhoge Indian 



site formerly occupied by certain 



clans of, 32 : 16 

 See also San Ildefonso. 

 Powishka Girl, 98: 126, 127 

 Powlas, Dr. J., on pathological condi- 

 tions among the Oneida, 34 : 215, 216, 

 table 9 (facing p. 406) 

 Po'XpuX, a chief, kills his male chil- 

 dren, 26: 187, 260 

 Poyas 



mention of, 63 : 31, 32, 33, 86 

 See also Poy-yus. 

 Poyner's Cave, 76 : 116 f. 

 Poy-yus 



classification of, as Alacalufan, 63 : 



6 

 identification of, improbable, 63: 

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