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INDEX 



Storage of food, 34. 

 Streams, crossing of, 43. 

 Sumner, W. G., 93. 

 Swimming, 43. 



Tapir, 7. 



hunting of, 25-26. 

 Technology, of the Siriono, 11-21. 

 Teknonymy, 51. 

 Textile industries, 11-12. 

 Theft, occurrence and punishment of, 61. 

 Thunder, native explanation of, 47. 

 Time, native concepts of, 48. 



reckoning, 48. 

 Tobacco: 

 planting, 29. 

 preparation, 37. 

 smoking, 37, 38. 

 Tools, manufacture and uses of, 14. 

 Tortoises, 7. 



use of, as food, 28, 34. 

 Toucan, 7. 



feathers of, for decoration, 19, 69. 



hunting of, 24. 

 Trails, 42. 



Transportation, 42-44. 

 Travel, 42-44. 

 Trinidad, city of, 2, 6. 

 Tupian language, 8. 



Twins: 



beliefs about, 70. 

 birth of, 70-73. 



Uruku {Bixa orellana): 



use in decoration, 11, 19. 

 use in healing, 87. 

 use in magic, 91. 



Utensils, 13. 



Vultures, 7. 



eating of, 33. 



Warfare, 62-63. 



Wasps, as pests, 7. 



Watercraft, lack of, 42. 



Water supply, 30. 



Weaning, 76. 



Weapons, 14-17. 



Wegner, Richard, 4, 10, 91. 



Whistling, 23. 



Whiting, John W. M., 1, 4, 93, 94. 



Women, position of, 59, 84-85. 



Wood ticks, as pests, 7. 



Work, 40-41. 



Wrestling, 39. 



Yale University, 1, 4. 

 Yanaigua Indians, 9. 

 Siriono fear of, 63. 



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