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[Bull. 194] 



Plains — Continued 



migrations onto, 16, 21, 23, 484 

 nomadic groups, 50, 482 

 norttiern, 358 



warfare, 232, 241, 273, 276, 397 

 western, 486 

 Plain Tail, Indian man, 424 

 Plants, 461 

 Plates, 387, 459 



Platform, four-post central, 160, 404, 470 

 Plaza complex, 483, 488 

 Pledgers, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 320, 

 321, 322, 332, 341, 346, 352, 366, 

 377, 400, 446 

 Plenty Yellow, Indian woman, 444 

 Plums, 356 



Police, 34, 35, 48, 49, 50, 56, 60, 73, 131, 

 132, 181, 184, 185, 187, 188, 189. 

 190 191, 192, 250, 251, 256, 272, 

 273, 293 

 See also: Crime; Societies, Black 

 Mouth. 

 Poor Bull, Indian man, 149 

 Poor Wolf, informant, vii, 41, 42, 43, 44, 

 144, 157, 173, 183, 201, 233, 236, 

 244, 245, 247, 249, 251, 256, 257. 

 260, 264, 265, 272, 310, 311, 343, 

 346, 367, 371, 375, 380, 383, 390, 

 418, 425, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 

 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 451, 456, 

 457, 460, 461 

 Poplar, Mont., 142 

 Poplar Creeli, 150 

 Porcupine, 293, 333 



quills of, used for decoration, 131, 

 147, 153, 280, 316, 414 

 Porcupine Butte, 246, 247 

 Porcupine Head, household, 356 

 Porcupine Pemmican, Indian man, 226, 

 229, 267, 309, 310, 312, 313, 322, 

 323, 422, 424, 426 

 Postholes, 448 

 Posts, 448, 457, 464, 479 



ash, 126, 330, 333, 391, 410, 464-466 



cedar, 483 



central, 481 



dressed, 464, 466 



forked, torture implement, 306, 321 



for Sun Dance ceremony, 167, 315, 



318, 319, 354 

 peripheral, 480, 481 

 roof, 316 

 snake, 361, 390 

 wall, 480 

 Pots, burial of, 392 



clay, 336, 345, 356, 348, 374, 375, 



389, 390, 391 

 decoration of, 391 

 dressing of, 390 

 metal, 374 



sacred, 345, 347, 348, 392 

 Potsherds, 464 

 trade, 22 



Pottery, 22, 334, 345, 373, 478, 479, 483 



Arikara, 478 



Awatixa, 22 



check-stamped, 22, 479, 483 



complexes, 23, 214 



cord-roughened, 22, 479, 483 



cross-hatched rims, 479 



dark colored, 479 



designs, 374, 480 



Heart River Focus, 334 



incised-decorated, 480 



S rims, 483 



techniques, 162 



thickened rims, 483 



types, 22, 214, 482, 483, 489, 

 Pottery making, 104, 120, 165, 166, 345, 



373, 374, 391 

 Powder and bullets, 145, 255 

 Powder horn, 379 

 Powder River, 22, 49, 214, 228, 229, 232, 



447 

 Prairie, 276 



Prairie chickens, 66, 131 

 Prairie Chicken village, 68 

 Prayers, to gods, 59, 61, 63, 76, 116, 129, 



319 

 Pregnancy, 110, 128 

 Prehistoric times, 3, 15, 474, 477, 483 

 Prehorse times, 216 

 Price. N. Dak., 369 

 Prisoners, 95, 155, 167 

 Property, division of, 110, 171 



personal, 171, 267, 289 

 Protector Drum, 458, 459 

 Protector robe, 458, 459 

 "Protectors of the people," prominent 

 men, 32, 33, 38, 44, 45, 152, 232, 

 275, 276 

 Protohistoric times, 481, 485, 488 

 Puberty, 138, 290 

 Public opinion, regard for, 184 

 Puffball, 454 

 Pumpkins, 335, 344, 345 

 Puts-His-Hair-Away, Indian man, 126, 

 309 



Quarrels, 24, 49 

 Quilts, 402 



Rabbit Head, Indian scout, 226, 227, 



309, 322, 402 

 Rabbits, 131, 219, 265, 272, 401 



beliefs regarding, 128 



cottontail, 435 



skin targets, 130 



See also Jackrabbit. 

 Radcliff -Brown, A. R., iil, vn 

 Rafts, 153, 379 

 Raids, 62, 113, 188, 193 

 Railroads, 57, 267 

 Rails, used for corrals, 448, 449 

 Rain, calling of, 468, 471 

 Rainmakers, 203, 263, 270, 363 

 Rainy Buttes, 227, 350, 375, 442 



