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INDEX. 



Cistercians, their gesture-language, 40-2. 



Civilization, progress of, 2, 118, 136, 

 148, 150, etc., 197, 292, 296, 363, 

 371 ; decHiie of, 180-7, 364. 



Clan-names : — in China, 278 ; Aus- 

 tralia, 280 ; persons of same, may not 

 marry, 277-82. 



Climbing by hoops, etc., 170. 



Cloth of bundles of fibre, 188-90. 



Cock and Bull stories, 10. 



Colour of feathers changed in live birds, 

 177. 



Cooking, 259-69 ; en papillote, 173 ; 

 roasting and broiling, 259 ; baking, 

 259 ; underground ovens, 260 ; bu- 

 caning or barbecuing, 260 ; boiling, 

 261-9 ; stone-boiling, 262-7. 



CopjDer, native, used by stone-age races 

 in North America, 204. 



Cord, hand-twisting of, 188. 



Corsicans, 297. 



Couvade, 287-97, 369 ; in South Ame- 

 rica and West India, 288-94 ; North 

 America, Africa, and Eastern Ai'chi- 

 pelago, 294 ; Asia, 294 ; Europe, 

 295 ; its ethnological value, 296. 



Customs, 273-97, 367; tying clothes 

 of couple in wedding, 47 ; fire not 

 touched with sharp instniment, 275 ; 

 sucking-cure, etc., 275-7, 296 ; re- 

 strictions from marriage of kindred, 

 277-84; Spartan marriage, 280-4; 

 restrictions to intercourse of parents- 

 in-law and children-in-law, 285-7 ; 

 tabued relationsliips, 287 ; couvade, 

 287-97, 369 ; usages concerning 

 sneezing, 368. 



Cybele, priests of, 217. 



Dasent, Dr., his argument from Beast- 

 Eables, 10, 355. 



Dead, names of, not mentioned, 142, 

 145. 



Deaf and dumb, their mental condition 

 and education, 17, 65-75; of them- 

 selves utter words, 72-5 ; their hp- 

 imitation of words, 73. 



DecUne of culture, 180-7, 364; Dr. 

 von Martius's theory of, 135 ; A. von 

 Humboldt on, 186. 



Deluge, 89, 317-24, 329, 340. 



Devil painted white, 113 ; attributes of 

 Fire-god, etc., given to, 359. 



Diable Boiteus, 358-60. 



Digger Indians, 185. 



Divination, 131. 



Doing, in sense of practising magic, 



DoUs and toys, 107-9. 



Dreams and phantasms, argument 

 from, 5-10. 



Drift gravels, stone implements in, 

 193-6 ; Mr. Prestwich on age of, 

 194 ; extinct animals of, 303-5. 



Drills for boring holes and for fire- 

 making, 187, 239-45. 



Drink = river, 37. 



Drum, 138. 



Dumb, becomes term for foreign, bar- 

 barian, stupid, young, 34, 65. 



Earrings, etc., 1. 



Eclipse, 163. 



Effigies, 122. 



Eggs, artificial hatching of, 181. 



Egypt : hieroglyphics, 97-9 ; Coptic 



alphabet, 101 ; decline in arts, 181 ; 



stone aiTow-heads, 209 ; stone em- 



balmer's knives, etc., 217. 

 Elephant, white, 274. 

 Erman, on rukh and griffin, 311. 

 Esquimaux, 166, 204, 241, 319, etc. 

 Evans, Mr. J., on wattled cloth of 



Swiss lake-dweUings, 1S8. 

 Evil eye, 53, 134. 



Father put to bed, etc., on birth of 

 child, see Couvade, 287-97, 369; 

 parentage ascribed only to, 293. 



Fergusson, Mr., on wooden forms in 

 architecture, 166. 



Fetish, 135. 



Fire, myths of origin of, 228-30, 

 252-3. 



Fire, new, 248-57 ;— Vestal, 248; in 

 Peru, 249 ; in India, 254 ; on Easter 

 Eve, 256 ; in Russia, 257 ; see also 

 Needfire. 



Fire, not touched with sharp instru- 

 ment, 275. 



Fii'e, races reported to be destitute of, 

 228-34; Guauches, 228; Islanders 

 of Los Jardines, 229 ; of Fakaafo, 

 229 ; of the Ladrones and PhiUp- 

 pines, 231 ; tribe in French Guiana, 

 233 ; Ethiopian tribes, 233. 



Fii-e-drill :— simple, 237-9, 249-59 ; as 

 carpenter's brace, 240 ; thong-drill, 

 240, 254 ; bow-drill, 243 ; pump- 

 driU, 243-5. 



Fii-e-making : — Tasmanians and Aus- 

 tralians said to have no means of, 

 234; methods of, in difierent coun- 

 tries, 236-59 ; stick-and-groove, 236; 

 striking fu-e with bamboo, 237; fire- 

 drill, 237-45 ; striking fii-e with iron 

 pyrites, 245, 259 ; with stones, etc., 

 246 ; flint and steel, 247 ; burning- 



