Culture Areas in North America. 



The divisions marked on this map are not absolute but relative. 

 Rarely can a tribe be found anywhere that does not share some of the 

 cultural traits of all its immediate neighbors. Yet, certain groups of 

 tribes often have highly characteristic traits in common; hence, they 

 are said to be of the same general culture type. Thus the tribes dis- 

 cussed in this book have a number of peculiar traits whose distribution 

 in more or less complete association is taken as indicating the geographi- 

 cal extent of a type of culture. The fact that these boundaries almost 



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