_Bead Chant_ of the Navaho, 78 _Beads_, cross and crescent worked in, 42 of precious stones in Navaho myth, 104 shell, in Navaho mythology, 106-107 shell, mixed with pollen, 38 silver, of the Navaho, 76, 77 symbolic of prayer, 34 used in puberty rite, 46, 47 white, on medicine caps, 40 _Beans_ depicted in dry-painting, 121 _Bear People_ of Navaho mythology, 111 _Bears_ in Apache mythology, 35 in Jicarilla mythology, 56, 58, 64 in Navaho dry-painting, 79 in Navaho mythology, 97, 102, 106 tabooed as food by Apache, 20 tabooed as food by Jicarillas, 135 _Bear Springs_ valley, 11 _Bear, Tracking_, a Navaho monster, 99, 106 _Beasts of burden_ in Apache myth, 35 _Beaver_ in Jicarilla mythology, 61 _Beds_ of the Apache, 16 _Begging ceremony_ of the Navaho, 120, 121 _Belts_, maternity, used by Apache, 38-39 silver, of the Navaho, 76, 126, 137 _Big Dipper_ in Apache myth, 25, 27, 29 in Navaho myth, 92 _Big God_ in Navaho myth, 98, 105 _Bĭlh Ahatí̆nĭ_, a Navaho mythic character, 112-116 _Bĭnáyeaganĭ_, a Navaho monster, 106 _Bird People_ of Navaho mythology, 95 _Birds_, creation of, in Apache myth, 27 _Birth._ _See_ CHILDBIRTH _Black Cloud_ of Navaho myth, 91, 96, 97 _See_ CLOUDS _Black Fog._ _See_ ÁDĬLHKĬH _Black God_, the Navaho Fire God, 103-104 _Black Man._ _See_ HASCHÍ̆N DÍ̆LHĬLI _Black river_, Arizona, 17 _Blankets_ in Navaho mythology, 94, 95 medicine-men compensated with, 125 of the Navaho, 74-75, 136 used in marriage settlement, 133 _Blindness_, fear of, by initiates, 120 from looking upon mother-in-law, 126 _Blowing_ to expel spirits, 48 _Bluebird song_ of Yébĭchai ceremony, 124 _Blue Corn Boy_ of Navaho myth, 96 _Bosque Redondo_, Navaho removed to, 83 plan to remove Apache to, 7 _See_ MESCALERO RESERVATION _Bounty_ offered for scalps, 6 _Bourke_, John G., cited, 48 _Bowl_ of pearl in Navaho mythology, 92 of shell used for medicine, 117, 120 of turquoise in Apache myth, 33 _Bows._ _See_ ARROWS _Bracelets_, silver, of the Navaho, 76 _Breech-cloth._ _See_ CLOTHING; LOIN-CLOTH _Buckskin._ _See_ DEERSKIN _Buffalo_ hunted by Jicarillas, 54 in Jicarilla after-world, 135 horns, myth concerning, 61, 62 _Buffalo skin_, tipis of, of the Jicarillas, 134 used in Jicarilla ceremony, 57 _Bumping Rocks_ of Navaho myth, 101 _See_ ROLLING STONE _Burial._ _See_ Mortuary Customs _Butterfly_ in Jicarilla mythology, 56, 58 _Buttons_, silver, of the Navaho, 77 _Buzzard People_ of the Navaho, 84 _Cabezon mountain_, mythic creation of, 90 _Cactus_, fastened to Apache clothing, 38 _See_ FOOD _Cairns_, Apache, 133 _Camp life_ of the Apache, 16 _Cañon de Chelly_, Navaho defeated in, 83 Navaho farms in, 73 _See_ TSÉ̆GYIĬ _Caps_ of the Apache, 131, 133 sacred, prescribed in Messiah religion, 44 _See_ CLOTHING; HEADDRESS; MEDICINE CAP