The North-Americans of yesterday : $b a comparative study of North-American Indian life, customs, and products, on the theory of the ethnic unity of the raceDellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
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The North-Americans of yesterday : $b a comparative study of North-American Indian life, customs, and products, on the theory of the ethnic unity of the race
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
Indians of Mexico; Indians of North America
Grass seeds for food, 358
Grave monuments, 166
Graves, 388;
stone box, 388
Grease feast, 162
Great Heads, 407
Great Mound of Cholula, 350
Great Spirit, no knowledge of a single, 375
Gukumatz, 397
H
Haida canoes, 164
Hair dressing, 150
Hall of Columns, 209, 246
Hano, establishment of village of, 22
Hard pottery, 100
Hardened copper, 299, 300
Harpoon, 267
Hawk bells, 292, 309
Head at Izamal, 191
Head chief, 416
Head roll for carrying, 153
Health, 356
Heat, debilitating to Amerinds, 439
Helmet, 260
Hereditary offices, 423–424
Hero-gods, 371, 396, 399, 401
Hiawatha, 393;
in Longfellow and Schoolcraft ranked as an Algonquin, 395
Hieratic languages, 29
Hill forts, 344
Hinuⁿ, God of Thunder, 364
History, linked with other races, 447
Hodenosaunee, 212
Hodenosote, 200, 210
Hollow square earthworks, 208
Homogeneity, 358
Hopewell cache, 264
Horse-racing, 323, 329
Hospitality, a law, 354, 447
House, column, 162;
of the dead, 208;
post, 162
Household utensils, 273
Houses on piles, 240
Hudson Bay Co., peaceful success of, 453
Huepilli, 140
Human flesh eaten, 367, 368
Hunt-the-button game, 324
Hut of the Great Sun, 208
I
Ideographic records, 48, 59
Iglu, 217
Iglugeak, 217
Ikonographic writing, 69
Ikonomatic, 48, 69
Imaginary animals, 174
Indian, corn, 358;
names, 395;
stocks or families, list of, 461;
tribes, list of, 465
Indio Triste, 184
Intercalation of days, 306;
denied, 306
Interkilling, 381
Internecine wars, 229, 427
Irish and Danes in Ancient America, 429
Irrigating, 333;
canals, 195, 333, 336
Iroquois, confederacy, 421, 425, 449;
costume, 140;
house, 198, 200, 210;
unsurpassed, 375
Israelite and Amerindian myths compared, 403
Itzamna, 401
Ixtlilxochitl, 443
Izamal, head at, 191
J
Jacal construction, 220, 236
Jargon, Chinook, 28
Joint tenements, 240
Jossakeed, 373
K
Kabinapek orchestra, 325
Kalopaling, 407
Karankawa, 34
Kashim, 216
Katcina, 47, 378
Kayak, 281, 283
Kishoni, 196
Kisi construction, 196
Kiva, 231, 232, 325, 350, 375, 412, 414
Knives, 269
Kwakiutl, house front, 239;
statues, 167
Kwokwuli, 405
L
Labna, palace of, 450
Labret, 355
Lacandon idol, 190
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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