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
Permanent houses, 195
Phonetic element in Mayan and Mexican writing, 71
Phonographic records of songs, 320
Photographs bad medicine, 381
Phratry, 414
Pictographs, painted, 42
Picture-writing, 39;
classified, 50
Piki (Moki bread), 377
Pima house, 199
Piñon nuts for food, 358
Pipe, 171;
of peace, 364;
stone, 375
Pisé, 220, 236
Platforms, 206
Plumaje, 134
Plum-stone game, 324
Pochotl, 360
Poet, 313
Pokagon, Simon, quoted, 449
Pole, sacred, of the Omahas, 204
Polygamy, 386
Polysynthetic languages, 32
_Popol Vuh_, 82, 397
Population, 177;
before glacial cold, 434
Portable houses, 195
Potlatch, 162
Pottery, area, 110;
burnished, 100;
cloisonné, 101;
coil made, 99;
decoration of, 99, 120, 122;
Eskimo knowledge of, 428;
glaze, 101;
invented, 98;
preparation of clay for, 99
Priest doctor, 371
Primitive, fabrics, 124;
garments, 126;
loom, 121
Pronunciation, 34
Protective, armour, 156;
medicine, 262
Protruding tongue, 166
Pueblo, 207
Puebloan, costume, 133, 151, 153;
ignorance of metals, 292;
use of term, 44
Pulque, 360
Pump-drill, 251, 254
Putchkohu, 268, 270
Pyramid, not a proper term, 343, 351;
of Cholula, 350;
of the Sun, 350
Q
Quarries, 264, 273
Quetzalcohuatl, 371, 396, 397
R
Rabbit-skin robe, 130
Rain dance, 364
Raised houses, 240
Rapidity of erosion after recession of ice, 441
Rations, issue of, 445
Rattles, 309
Rattlesnake, centre of distribution, 190;
designs, 188;
horned, 380;
species, 189;
venerated, 63
Recession of the sea, 437
Records of Tecpan, Atitlan, 82
Red Cloud’s census, 60
Red dye, 304
Red pipe-stone, 375
Red score, authenticity of, 390;
of the Lenapés, 46, 47, 390
Rehearsal, a, 317
Religion, 375
Religious feasts, 368
Remedies, medicinal, 373
Remedy for smallpox, 375
Repoussé method of working copper, 291
Resemblance to Asiatics, 457
Resemblances of Amerinds and Old World people, cause of, 432
Reservoirs, 195, 338
Resurrection dance, 316, 399
Right of asylum, 364
Roasting tray, 90
Rock, carving, 168;
peckings, 42, 168, 180
Roof construction, Mitla, 230;
Moki, 226
Rope-making, 126, 346
Round towers, 232
Ruins in Honduras and Nicaragua, 246
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