INDEX. 



Omaivhaw, occupations, preparations 



for national bunt, i. 201 



departure on a bunting ex- 

 cursion, i. - - 205 

 ceremony on discovering a 



herd of bisons, i. - 206 



surrounding a iierd of bi- 

 sons, i. - - 208 

 dissection and preparation 

 of tlie meat, i. - 210 

 return to the village, i. - 212 

 employments, i. - 212 

 different preparations of 

 maize, i. - - 213 

 puni|>kins, i. - 213 

 canibalism, i. - - 214 

 lice eaten by the Indians, i. 215 

 amusements of the men, i. 215 

 winter hunt, i. - 217 

 employment of the squaws, 218 

 trade, i. - - 218 

 return by the village and 

 proceed on to hunt the 

 bisons, i. - - 220 

 manner of preparing the 



hides, i. - - 221 



government, i. - 222 



the grand chief Blackbird, i. 223 

 matrimony and the marri- 

 ed state, i. - 230 

 jealousy, i. - - 233 

 punishment of adultery, i. 233 

 catamenia, i. - - 235 

 parturition, i. - 236 

 diseases, i. - - 237 

 monsters, abortion, infant 



children, i. - - 238 



girls, their chastity, &c. i. 239 

 boys, their propitiation of 

 the VVahconda — disobe- 

 dience, i. - - 240 

 an "lote of a father, i. 241 

 youug man, his home till 



married, i. - 242 



his house and furniture, i. 243 

 mourning for the dead, i. 243 

 love — maternal love, anec- 

 dote, i. - - 244 

 quarrels and duels, i, 249 

 titles of consanguinity, i. 251 

 anecdote of a father-in- 

 law, i. - - 253 

 fraternal love, i. - 254 

 old age, i. - 255 

 diseases, i. - - 258 

 medical and surgical know- 

 ledge, i. - - 262 

 burial, i. - - 281 

 lamentation for the dead, i. 282 

 physical description, i. 283 



Omawhaw, senses, i. ' - - 286 



mechanics and fine arts, i. 287 

 astronomical and geogra- 

 phic'dl knowledge, i. - 288 

 culinary, horticultural and 

 martial instruments, i. 290 

 domestic animals, i. - 291 

 war parties and war, i. 292 

 battle with the Pawnee 

 Loups, i. - - 300 



battle with the Pawnee re- 

 publicans, i. - - 300 

 with the Puncaws, i. 301 

 with the Otoes, i. - 301 

 with the Padoucas, i. 302 

 with the Kor.zas, i. - 302 

 manner of intrenching, i. 304 , 

 fidelity of Wacora,i. - 307 

 migration, i. - 338 

 drunkenness, i. - - 264 

 sodomy, i. - - 266 

 ideas of futurity, i. - 267 

 of God, i. - - 268 

 magicians, i. - - 268 

 superstitions, i. - 272 

 peculiar odour, i. - 482 

 Orbicular lizard, i. - 138 

 ii. - - 35, 89 

 Orchidae, i. . - 44 

 Orders, Major Long's, detailing the 

 duties of the individuals of 

 the party at the commence- 

 ment of the expedition, i. 1 

 relative to the duties of the 

 party during the winter can- 

 tonment, i. - 166 

 issued at the departure of 

 the expedition from Engi- 

 neer Cantonment, i. 423 

 Oreof iron, haematitic, li. - 292 

 Organic reliquiae descni'cd, i. 22, 33 

 84, 90, 106, 147 

 ii. 49, 219 

 Orthocera, i. - - 22 

 Osage river and town, i. - - 85 

 Indians, ii. - - 237 

 their mode of huntinghorsesii. 243 

 some account of, ii. - 244 

 number of children of a 

 chief, ii. - - 251 

 Oto Indians, dance of, i. - - 164 

 council with, i. - 158 

 attack the Konza village, i. 305 

 party of, attacked by the 

 Konzas, i. - - 305 

 their nation, village, and 

 name, i - - 338 

 theirniigration,i. - - 339 

 bravery, i. - - 341 

 hunting grounds, i. - 342 



