

CALIFORN 

 AFEA 



MEXl 



CENTRAL AMERICA^ 



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 characterstic traits in common whence 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 



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