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
Monitor pipe, 171
Monolithic monuments, 186
Montezuma, legend of, 408;
rank of, 423
Moons computed to the year, 305
Morgan’s classification, 14
Mormon protective garment, 262
Mortar, 246, 272
Most widely spread stocks, 443
Mound foundations, 242
Moundbuilder pipes, 172, 174
Moundbuilders, lack of skill, 174
Mounds, 195, 206, 207, 342, 350;
builders of, 343
Murder, settlement of, 381
Musical, bow, 308, 451;
instruments, 308
Mustache, 154
Myths, 393, 403;
resemblances to those of Israelites, 403
N
Nahuatls, 443. _See_ Mexican _and_ Aztec
Names, derivation of, 386;
indicating totem, 420
Natchez temple, 207
Navajo, costume, 150;
dramatic sense, 331;
dry-painting, 61;
house, 199;
loom construction, 131, 132;
reservation, 445;
silversmiths, 294;
silver-work, 296;
songs the most primitive, 313;
summer and winter homes, 412;
women’s costume, 150
Navajos remained behind, 440
Nenenot tent, 219
Nets, 269
New-fire, 252, 368, 370;
Moki, 370
Newark group of earthworks, 346
Nicaragua costume, 140
Night attacks, 366
North growing warmer, 443
North-west coast, “coppers,” 293;
houses, 212, 241;
totem poles, 241
North-western tribes, costume, 144
Notched doorway, 213, 228
Numerals of the Mayas, 83, 86
O
Object of Aztec war, 368
Observatories, 183
Obsidian, mines, 264;
tools, 299
Octli, 360
Oglala roster, 387
Okeepa ceremony, 362, 378
Oldest people of Valley of Mexico, 443
Olmecas, 443
Omaha boat, 284
Only one kind of music, 314
Ontonagon bowlder, the, 289
Opinion, effect of, on civil chief, 416
Oraibi at night, 325
Organisation and government, 410, 414
Organisation of Iroquois confederacy, 425
Origin, migrations, and history, 428
Origin of Maya writing, 78
Ornamentation of Yucatec architecture, 191
Outlaws, 453, 455
P
Pai Ute Messiah, 399
Pai Utes, 303
Painting faces, 366
Palace of Palenque, 351
Palenque buildings, 244, 351, 404, Frontispiece;
transverse section of, 210
Palm-drill, 252, 368
Paper of the Mayas, 77
Parallelism of human development, 396
Patnish and his band, 455
Patolli, 322
Peace chiefs, 418;
envoys, 364
Penn’s dealings, 358
Peopling of America, 428
Peresianus codex, 76
Period of time since recession of ice, 441
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