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INDEX. 



Barrings, 50. 

 Earth lodges, 36-39. 

 Earthworks, 140. 



Facial characteristics, 136-137. 



Feathers, worn in the hair, 50. 



Fire-making, 51. 



Fleshing tools, 57, 58, 59. 



Food, 19-21; boiling in a skin, 69- 



71. 

 Forests, distribution of, 13. 

 Four movements, 118. 



Games, 78-80. 



Gentes, 84. 



Geometric art, 125-126. 



Ghost dance, 79; ceremonies, 113- 



115. 

 Government, 88-89. 

 Grass lodge, 41. 

 Green corn dance, 109. 



Hair, manner of dressing, 49. 



Hand game, 80. 



Headdress, 49-50; for sun dance, 



111. 

 Head form, of Plains Indians, 139. 

 Headgear, 46. 

 Head men, of a band, 88. 

 Heraldry, 96, 125. 

 Horned serpent, 100. 

 Horse, introduction of, 20. 

 Hunting, 19, 20; implements used 



in, 23-26. 



Individual medicines, 105. 

 Industrial arts, 51-81. 

 Implements, of copper, 75; for 

 hunting, 23-26. 



Knives, 72, 73; bone, 74, 75. 

 Kissing dance, 117. 

 Kiowan language, 128, 



Lance, 25, 26. 



Language, 127-131, 139. 



Leggings, 44. 



Linguistic stock, defined, 129. 



Lodges, types of, 40. 



Mad (or foolish) society, 91. 



Maize, cultivation of, 28. 



Marriage, 86-87. 



Masks, use of in ceremonies, 119. 



Material culture, 19-81. 



Mauls, stone, 60, 74. 



Medicine arrows, 105. 



Medicine bundles, 105-109; trans- 

 fer of, 107. 



Medicine-pipe, 76, 104, 107. 



Migration legends, 100. 



Mittens, 46. 



Moccasins, designs on, 120, 121-123; 

 types of, 42-44. 



Mounds, 140. 



Musical instruments, in ceremonies, 

 119.. 



Mythology, 97-100. 



Names, manner of giving, 87. 

 Navel cord, preservation of, 87. 

 Night chants, 109. 



Omaha dance, 115, 116-117. 

 Okipa, 113; drums, 105. 

 Origins, 138-141. 



Paint bags, 67-68. 

 Painting, of the body, 50; for cere- 

 monies, 119; on parfleche, 121. 

 Parfleche, 61-62. 

 Pemmican, 26-28, 62. 

 Peyote worship, 115-116. 

 Physical type, 132-137. 

 Pictographic art, 126. 

 Picture writing, 96. 



