INDEX. 



377 



Names : — their association with objects, 

 124 ; their use in magic, etc., 124-7 ; 

 concealed, 125 ; changed to deceive 

 evil spirits, 126 ; exchanged in token 

 of amity, 126 ; avoidance of use of 

 certain personal names, own, of others, 

 of husbands, of parents- and children- 

 in-law, of other connexions, of kings 

 and chiefs, of dead, of spirits, of su- 

 perhuman beings, 139-47, 285-7. 



Needfire, 255-8. 



New Zealanders, 161, 188, 201, 264, etc. 



North American Indians, their picture- 

 writing, '.83-8, 91 ; calendars, 91 ; 

 syUabarium of Cherokees, 104. 



Numa Pompihus, 248. 



Numerals, Roman, etc., 105. 



Objective and subjective impressions 

 and connexions confused, 117-49, 

 292, 369. 



Ornamentation of urns, 271. 



Ostyaks, images of dead, 110. 



Parents-in-law and chikben-in-law, ob- 

 servances concerning, 141-7 ; re- 

 strictions to intercourse of, 285-7. 



PeUet-bow, 177. 



Peru : — metal-work of, 205 ; New Fire, 

 249 ; Virgins of the Sun compared 

 with Vestal Virgins of Rome, 250. 



Phonetic characters, 94^106 ; of Mexi- 

 cans, 94-6 ; Egyptian hieroglyphs, 

 97-9 ; of Chinese, 99-101 ; of Cen- 

 tral America, 100 ; alphabets and 

 syllabaria, 101-5. 



Picture-writing, etc., 83-106, 159 ; of 

 North American Indians, 83-91 ; of 

 Mexicans, 91-7 ; numerals, 105. 



Plants, sympathetic, 132, 



Polynesians, 142-4, 161, 174, 237, 265, 

 299, 337, etc. 



Pottery, 175, 179, 263-6; Goguet's 

 theory of origin of, 269-72 ; tran- 

 sition vessels, 269-72 ; gourd-shapes, 

 270 ; ornamentation, 271. 



Prometheus, 228, 254. 



Puris and Coroados, 76-9. 



Pygmies, 233. 



Pyrites, striking fire with, 245, 259. 



Quaternary deposits, 193 ; possible tra- 

 ditions of animals of, 303-5. 

 Quetzalcohuatl, 151-4. 

 Quipus, 154-8. 



Rabbinical law as to circumcision, 



215. 

 Rainmakers, 133. 

 Rattles, 137. 



Reindeer-tribes of Central France, 196 • 



Reynard tlie Fox, 11, 355. 



Rice, traditions of introduction of, 



301-3, 346. 

 Roasting and broiUng food, 259. 

 Rukh, 311. 



Sago, 178. 



Samovar, 165. 



Samson, 339, 343. 



Sanchoniathon, cosmogony of, 253. 



Semitic race, their alphabet, 102 ; stone 

 implements, 213-8. 



Shell heaps, stone implements of, 192, 

 197. 



Signatures, doctrine of, 123. 



Similarity in arts, customs, behefs, etc., 

 in distant regions, arguments from, 

 5, 139, 169, 201-3, 260, 273, 296, 

 323, 325, etc., 361-3. 



Sneezing, customs relating to, 368. 



Sorcerers : — their arts, 127-39 ; rattles 

 and drums, 137 ; cure by sucking, 

 etc., 275-7. 



Soul, future hfe of, 5-10, 293, 349-52. 



Sound and colour, comparison of, 71. 



Spartan marriage, 280-4. 



Spindle, 188-90. 



Sj^irits : — of dead affected through re- 

 mains of bodies, 129 ; names of s. 

 not mentioned, 143. 



Steinthal, Prof., on gesture-language, 

 14 ; on thought and speech, 69. 



Stick-and-groove, 236. 



Stone, ornaments of hard, made by low 

 South American tribes, 186. 



Stone Age, 191-227 ; unground, 193-7, 

 369 ; ground, 198-203 ; evidence of, 

 in different parts of the world, 

 203-27 ; evidence of language as to, 

 212-4. 



Stone-boiling, 262-7, 302. 



Stone implements, 191-227 ; late surviv- 

 ing, 191 ; natural stones used, 191-3 ; 

 implements of Drift, 193-6 ; similar 

 ones elsewhere, 195 ; of bone-caves, 

 196 ; of Scandinavian shell-heaps, 

 197 ; grinding and polishing, 

 196-201; flake-knives, 198; celts, 

 198-200 ; hammers, 199 ; axes, 199 ; 

 special instruments, 200 ; liigh-class 

 celts in Australia, 200 ; patu-patu of 

 New Zealand and S. America, 201 ; 

 general similarity of stone imple- 

 ments of different countries, 202 ; 

 countries found under Stone Age 

 conditions, 204 ; stone implements 

 of N. and S. America, 205 ; Kam- 

 chatka, 207; China, 207; Tartary, 



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