INDEX 



aborigines' Committee, cited, 444, 



412, 437- 

 Adoption, ceremony of, 344, 404-10; 



picturesque features, 438. 

 Agoianders, 348, 420. 

 Albany, councils at, 431 ; reception of 



Iroquois at in 1711, 422; treaty 



held at in 1694, 421. 

 Algonquins, election of chiefs, 348. 

 Amulets, 439, 441. 

 Arrows, 440. 

 At the Wood's Edge (song), 352, 



354-57- 

 Awls, 440. 

 Axes, 440; grooved, 439. 



Barber, John W., cited, 444. 



Bartram, John, cited, 444, 428. 



Beads, 439, 441. 



Bear clan, meaning of names of 

 towns, 380. 



Bearfoot, Rev. Isaac, mentioned, 398. 



Beauchamp, W. M., adoption, 410; 

 cited, 444, 411. 



Bellomont, Lord, cited, 436. 



Bird amulets, 441. 



Bone, carvings on, 442. 



Bone articles, 439. 



Book of the Younger Nations, 398. 



Brass beads, 439. 



Brebeuf, cited, 353. 



Breckenridge, Rev. John, adoption, 

 408. 



Brooches, given at ceremonies of 

 adoption, 407. 



Bruyas, Father, cited, 431 ; men- 

 tioned, 426, 442. 



Buck, Chief John, mentioned, 398, 

 400. 



Buffalo, council at in 1785, 423. 



Bureau of Ethnology, cited, 444, 399. 



Burnet, George, mentioned, 436. 



Calumet in the council, 431-34. 



Cammerhoff, Frederick:, cited, 444, 

 423- 



Canachqnaieson, 394. 



Canadian songs, 385. 



Canandaigua, last general council at, 

 422. 



Canassatego, 423; death, 394. 



Canienga Book of Rites, passages 

 from, 385-86. 



Cartier, cited, 348; visit to Hoche- 

 laga in 1535, 421. 



Carvings on bone, 442. 



Cayugas, council name, 427. 



Ceremonial manuscripts, 398-400. 



Chadwick, Edward M., cited, 444, 

 349, 390. 



Charlevoix, P. F. X. de, cited, 444, 

 343, 348, 349, 432. 



Chaumonot, visit to Onondaga, 421. 



Chaumont bay, ossuary on, 439, 442. 



Chenango county, relics, 439. 



Chiefs, character and power, 345-50; 

 election, 346, 348; exhortations ad- 

 dressed to, 387; line of descent 

 through the woman, 349; lists, 

 389-90; names, 348; meaning of 

 names, 391-92; how nominated in 

 Canada, 349; number named in 

 song, 389; office hereditary among 

 Hurons, 348; no official distinction, 

 437; official resuscitation, 345; pine 

 tree chiefs, 348. 



Civil councils, see Nation councils. 



Clark, J. V. H., cited, 444, 412, 417. 



Clark, Gen. John S., adoption, 410. 



Clarkson, Thomas, cited, 437. 



Clay pipes, 439. 



Colden, Cadwallader, cited, 444, 430; 

 adoption, 405. 



