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Tunican group 



description of, 43: 9, 306 

 See also tribal names. 

 Tunican peoples 



part played by, in aboriginal his- 

 tory, 68: 8 

 religious temples of, on mounds, 

 68: 9 

 Tunica Old Fields, location of, 68: 8 

 Tunica River 



application of name, 43 : 331 

 note of Charlevoix on, 43: 312 

 Tunnel Cave, 76: 56 

 Tunnels, at Santiago Ahuitzotla, 74: 



35 f . 

 Tunsa 



a Florida town, 73 : 333 

 See also Antonico. 

 Tunuk-chi, a Central Miwok place 



name, 78: 445 

 Tuohuala, probable identification of, 



78: 483 

 Tuolumne, a source of California place 



name, 78: 897 

 Tuolumne River, 78 : 442, 476 

 Tiipamukiyam (?), location of, 78: 



617 

 Tupica, see Tupiqui. 

 Tupichihasao, rebellion of Indians of, 



73: 91 

 Tupiqui, a Guale town, 73 : 82 

 Tuque, a Guale town, 73: 83 

 Turip 



a Yurok town, 78 : 11 

 Deerskin dance of, 78: 61 

 in Yurok tradition, 78: 10 

 location of, 78 : 8 

 mention of, 78 : 25, 59, 60 

 population of, 78: 16, 18, 19 

 Tiirka, location of, 78: 618 

 Turkestan, Chinese, vegetation of, de- 

 creased within historic times, 54: 

 44 

 Turkey 



and wildcat, Natchez story, 88: 



254 

 a strange, catches people and car- 

 ries them up to sky, Hitchiti, 

 88: 90 f. 

 Creek story of the, 88: 36 

 owl and the, Koasati story, 88: 



198 

 rabbit gets a, for wild cat, Creek 



stories, 88:47, 47 f. 

 turtle, and rattlesnake, Creek 



story, 88: 57 f. 

 See also Turkeys. 

 Turkey buzzard men, Chitimacha, 43: 



350 

 Turkey calls, made of bone, 81 : 27 

 Turkey Creek, a Creek town, 73: 286 

 Turkey Dance 



description of, 75: 95 f. 

 diagram of, 75: 95 

 drum used with, 75 : 28 

 songs of, 75 : 96-101 

 Ute name for, 75:20 



Turkey-Head, Catawba village of, 22 



73 

 Turkey Mother, Cochiti tale of, 98 



78 f . 

 Turkeyneck Mountain, naming of, 90 



26 

 Turkey-pen Slough, village site at 



mouth of, 76: 40 

 Turkey River, 85 : 71 

 Turkeys 



abundant in Pamunkey covmtry, 



17: 15 

 among the Koroa, 43 : 329 

 among the Tewa, 56 : 1, 2, 4, 6, 34 

 and the wildcat, 47 : 27-31 

 bones of, fragments of, in Rever- 



comb mound, 23: 32 

 domesticated, seen by Spaniards in 



1540, 65: 99 

 domestication of, 96: 5 

 eggs of, found in ruin, 81: 68 f. 

 feathers of, string made from, 65 : 



118 

 feathers of, used for making 



feather cloth, 65 : 99 

 Koasati story of rabbit and the, 



88: 210 

 raising of, by Natchez, 43: 73 

 raising of, by Omaha, 11: 39 

 story about, 93 : 102 f . 

 traces of, in Spruce-tree House, 



41: 4, 7 

 use of feathers of, 43: 289, 317 

 use of, in Cha chac ceremony, 64: 



45 

 See also Turkey. 

 Turmeric, purifying properties of, 38 : 



14, 29 

 Turner, — , cited on recent low-browed 



crania, 33: 99 

 Turner, Lucien M., in bibliography, 



34: 423 

 Turner, S. S., in bibliography, 34: 423 

 Turner Mounds, mica figures from, 



60: 242 

 Turnips 



among the Tewa, 55: 112 

 raising of, 11: 39 

 Turquoise 



beads, 35: 87; 52: 126; 81: 3 

 found in ruins, 54 : 34 

 found with burial, 82:49 

 implements of, found in ruins, 54 : 



34 

 mines, mention of, 35: 84; 60: 



114 

 mining, mention of, 60 : 271 

 objects, absence of, 41: 27 

 offerings of, 100: 6 

 ornaments of, 100: 159 

 people who went for, and became 

 snakes, Cochiti account of, 98: 

 196 f . 

 rarity of, 96: 154 

 specimen of ear pendant of, 51: 

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