INDEX 



Page. 



Adder, spKEAmNG,a litesymbol 103 



ADOPnON OF CAPTIVES 67 



Alsea language, grammatical sketch of 22 



AiTOREWs, Miss H. A., assistance of 20 



APPROPELITION FOR AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 9 



ARAPAHO NOTEBOOKS 2S 



ARcnEOLOGY, report on, of Lower Mimbres 



Valley II 



Arrow ceremony 145 



Arrows, seven symbouc, story of 156 



Ballod, Howard M., Hawaiian bibliog- 

 raphy compiled by 28 



Barham, W. B., specimens presented by 34 



Bear. See Black bear. 



Beaver, a Ufe symbol 99, 100 



Beede, a. McG., specimen presented by 34 



Black bear— 



a Ufe symbol 105, 108, 123, 130 



footprints of, a war symbol 76 



Black Bear gens 105-107 



ceremonial rank of 219 



ni'-ki wi'-gi-e of 219-237 



Black-dog , Chief, list of geutes given by .. . 52 



Blackfish, a life symbol 99 



Blacksnake, a life symbol 103 



Boas, Franz— 



memoir by 30 



work of 19-20 



and Chamberlain, A. F., paper by 31 



BOGORAS, WaLDEMAR— 



manuscript intrusted to 20 



paper by 30 



Boulder— 



black, a life symbol IDS 



red, a life symbol 61, 108 



white, a life symbol 109 



yellow, a life symbol 109 



Bow, a life symbol 99 



Bow GENS 98 



Breast-siueld, symbouc, story of 156 



Buffalo back, a life symbol 132 



Buffalo Back gens 132-133 



Buffalo bull, a life symbol 102 



Buffalo Bull gens 134-139 



Buffalo-face gens 121 



Buffalo head, the wa-xo'-be of an Omaha 



subgens 65 



Buffalo hunt, route of, designated by 



chiefs 67 



Bl-ffalo-skin, instructions for dressing . . . 270-271 



Buffalo songs 141-143, 293-294 



meaning of 143-144 



Bull snake, a litesymbol lo3 



BURDEN-STR.VP, SYMBOUC 152,153 



BusHNELL, D. I., Jr., work of 27 



Caufornia Indians, preparation of manu- 

 script on 27-28 



Camps, ceremonial arrangement of 69 



Carrier, Miss Emily, Nanticoke words sup- 

 plied by 14 



Cat-tail, a life symbol 93 



Cat-tail gens, silent during ceremony 93 



Caves of Cottonivood Canyon 26 



Cedar, male, a life symbol 95 



Cedar, red, a hie symbol 95 



Cedar tree, in rites of the Osage 281 



Ceremonial Approach, Wi'-gi-e of 249-251 



Ceremonul forms, a handicap 66 



Ceremonials, memorizing of 67 



Ceremony— 



of making symbolic moccasins 239-242 



of sending 91, 155-156 



Painting 242 



preliminary, of the Ni'-ki degree 153-154 



See also Rites. 



Chamberlain, A. F., material collected by.. 20 

 See also Boas, Fkanz, and Chamberlai.n. 



Cherokee Induns, sacred formulas of 12 



Chief— 



descent of office of 68 



duties of 67 



healing powers of 71 



one, for each great division of the tribe. . . 67 



symbolism of house of 68-69 



Child— 



giving of gentile name to 50 



love of parent for 50 



Choctaw Dictionary, Byington's 29 



Chukchee language, paper on 30 



ClN'-DSE-A-GTHE GENS, Ni'-ki ritual of 272-274 



Clark, Thomas F.,Jr.— 



transfer of 34 



work of 31 



CoN-DSEU'-GTHi", a division of the Osage. . . 45 



Coos LANGUAGE, papor on 30 



Corn— 



blue, a life symbol 136 



flint, alites.vmbol 134 



red, a life symbol 136 



speckled, a Ufe symbol 137 



yellow, a Ufe symliol 137 



CoviLLE, Frederick V., acknowledgment to 55 



Crawfish, a life symbol 116 



CRAWFISH GENS 116-118 



Creek Indians, memoir on, by John R. 



Swanton 13 



Cucurbita foetidissim a, a life symbol 135 



CUCURBITA PERENNIS— 



a life symbol 136 



root of, called the Man Medicine 70 



Curtin, Jeremiah, material collected by. . . 30 

 Daventort Academy of Sciences, work of 



Truman Michelson for 18 



Dawn, red plume the symbol of 134 



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