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INDEX 



Bayou Castine, La., 82. 

 Bayou d'Arro, La., 91, 188. 

 Bayou de la Coeur, Pascagoula terri- 

 tory located between Bayou Philippe 

 and, 171. 

 Bayou Goula, La., 95. 



below Baton Rouge, visited by 

 Iberville, 327. 

 Bayou Jean de Jean, La., 91, 188. 

 Bayou Lafourche, La., 30. 



home of Chitimacha, 119, 120. 

 home of Houma, 140. 

 site of Chawasha village, 108. 

 site of Washa tribe, 204. 

 Taensa granted permission to settle 

 on Mississippi at entrance of, 

 188. 

 Bayou La Teche, La., home of Chiti- 

 macha, 119, 120. 

 Bayou Philippe, Pascagoula territory 

 located between Bayou de la Coeur 

 and, 171. 

 Bayou Rapides, 87, 97. 

 Bayou St. Jean, near New Orleans, 



home of Houma, 139. 

 Bayou Sara, 191. 

 Bayou Teche, La, 30, 93. 

 Bayou Treache, on Red River, assigned 



to Quapaw^ 176. 

 Bazares, Guido de, 59. 

 Beads, use of by Indians, 481-488, 517, 



518, 523. 

 Beans, hyacinth (Dolichos sp.), use of 



as food, 285, 286, 288. 

 Beans, kidney {Phaseolus sp.), use of, 



288. 

 Beans, use of, 269. 

 Bear, hunting of, 321-324. 

 Bear, uses of, 249, 277, 295, 297, 439, 



440, 449, 527. 

 Bear Creek, 96. 



site of defeat of Shawnee by Chick- 

 asaw, 185. 

 Bear Fort, a town of the Alabama, 87. 

 Bear River Indians, 148. 

 Beards, w^orn by some Indians, 498. 



and mustaches, worn by Keyauwee 

 males, 144, 498. 

 Beaufort, S. C, 45, 61. 



location of earliest Huguenot col- 

 ony, 128. 

 Beaurain, Le Sieur, 130, 162. 

 Bedias Creek, Tex., 96. 

 Beds, description of, 422. 

 Belknap, Jeremy, member of committee 

 of Scots Society for Propagating 

 Christian Knowledge, 236. 



on moral characteristics of Oneida 

 and Mahican Indians, 236. 

 Bellefonte Island, 48. 

 Belle Isle, Bidai mentioned in narrative 

 of, 96. 



estimate of Akokisa population by, 

 86. 

 Belts, ornamentation on, 523-525, 611, 

 612. 



Benjamin Paul, Chitimacha chief, in- 

 formation on Chitimacha supplied 

 by, 121. 

 Bennetts Creek, N. C, site of Chow- 



anoc reservation, 124. 

 Benoist, Chicksaw defeat of force 



under, 118. 

 Benton, Ark., 54. 

 Beranger, Jean, Akokisa vocabulary 



recorded by, 85, 94. 

 Berkeley, 175, 336. 



Beverley, Robert, 277, 304, 235, 328, 

 423, 427, 428, 432, 462, 709, 813, 831. 

 on agricultural habits, 307. 

 on altars, of, 549. 

 on artistic development, 614, 615. 

 on axes, 545. 



on bags and purses, 479. 

 on bracelets and arm bands, 521. 

 on clothing, 459, 460, 463, 464, 

 473, 475, 525. 



worn by medicine men, 478. 

 on coloring of manufactured arti- 

 cles, 609. 

 on cooking, 351, 352, 353, 356, 360, 



364, 367, 368, 370. 

 on corn, 274. 

 on divisions of time by Indians of 



Virginia, 257. 

 on ear ornaments, 511. 

 on fire making, 426. 

 on fishing, 333, 334. 

 on foods, 275, 276. 

 on forts, 438. 

 on games, 685. 

 on greasing and coloring of hair and 



skin, 526, 527, 529, 530. 

 on hair dressing, 502. 

 on head bands, 509. 

 on household utensils, 556, 562. 

 on houses, 415. 

 on hunting, 317, 318. 

 on implements for hunting and 



fishing, 564, 573, 577, 582. 

 on mats and baskets, 603. 

 on medical practices, 784, 785. 

 on mnemonic devices, 610. 

 on monej^ or wampum, 482. 

 on musical instruments, 625, 627. 

 on necklaces, 516, 517, 519. 

 on ornaments, 481, 482. 

 on quarries, 542. 

 on religious beliefs and usages, 744, 



745, 746, 747, 748. 

 on salt substitutes, 276, 303. 

 on social organization, 645, 646. 

 on stone, use of, 543. 

 on tobacco, 383. 

 on transportation, means of, 592, 



593, 595, 596. 

 on war customs, 687. 

 on weapons, 564, 573, 577, 582. 

 Bible, printed in syllabary invented by 



Sequoya, Cherokee chief, 113. 

 Bibliographv, Southeastern tribes, 832- 

 855. 



