Aboriginal dress, 126, 133 Adobe, 220; brick, 234; house, 195 Adoption, 366, 416 Adoratorio, 186 Alaska, peopled from S. and S.-E., 457 Albornoz, 136 Aleut houses, 216 Aleutian islands, when inhabited, 457 Aleuts, range of, 217 Algonquin, dress, 142; records, 58 Alloy of gold and copper, 301 Alosaka, the, 179 Alphabet, Bureau of Ethnology, 36; Cherokee, 52; Sauk, 53 Amazon myth, 403 America, when peopled, 456 Amerind, a village dweller, 247; definition of, 2; literature, 30 Amerindian race composed of different elements, 457 Amerinds a stone-age people, 248 Amnesty, 370 Amusements, 308 Ancient fabrics, 108 Antiquity of man in America, evidences of, 434 Antiquity of Mayas, 242 Apaches and Navajos remaining behind, 440 Appendix, 461 Aqueduct, 339 Arch, 217, 242 Ardnainiq, tribe called, 407 Armour, 156, 255, 257 Arrow- and spear-heads, 263 Assembly place, 412 Astrology, reliance of Aztecs on, 373 Astronomical, knowledge, 183; reckonings, 303; station at Zuñi, 306; stone, 182 Atlantis, 15 Atolli, 360 Authentic history, beginning of, 443 Awatuwi, ruins of, 179 Awl game, 320 Aztec, books, 73; cannibal banquet, 371; confederacy, 421, 423, 424; descent, how reckoned, 423; sculptures, 184; states, government of, 423; stone tools, 433; towns, 238; writing, 68, 69; year, 306 B Bag, sacred, 204 Baggattaway, 327 Baidar, 283 Baidarka, 283 Balance not known, 305 Ball games, 327 Baqati wheel, 317 Barábara, 217 Bark for rope-making, 126 Basket-drum, 92, 311 Basketry hats, 147, 148, 415 Basque, resemblance of language to Amerind, 32 Bathing, 386 Battle, costume, 357; for a wife, 385; of Wounded Knee, how begun, 445 Bayeta cloth, how used by Navajos, 131 Beads, wampum, 56 Beadwork, 153 Bear-mother carving, 164 Beckwourth, head chief of the Crows, 416 Bells, 292, 301, 302 Belts, 143 Bird box, 364; spear, Eskimo, 268 Bird-stones, 175 Bison, disappearance of, 333; possibility of domestication, 276 Black dye, 304 Blanket and basket designs symbolic, 58 Blanket-loom, 124, 131, 132 Blanket-making, 128, 133 Blanket-pole, 162 Blue dye, 304 Boats, 281; Omaha, 284 Boiling-basket, 89