Running the gauntlet, 366 S Sachems, duties of, 425 Sacred, bag, 204; buffalo-cow skin, 204; Moki blanket, 130; pole, 204, 383; structures, 208; tent, 204, 208; tipi, 204 Sacrifice, method of Aztec, 371; of children, Aztec, 371 Sacrificial stone, 182 Sail of umiak, 284 Sauk alphabet, 53 Sealskin, bottles, 276; floats, 267 Secret society, 414 Section of Yucatec building, 235 Seminole, costume, 154; war, 445 Sequoia, 360 Sequoyah (George Gist) syllabary, 52 Seven cities myth, 403 Shamans, 371, 373, 408; definition of, 372 Shell carvings, 174 Shields, 258 Shoshokoes, 8 Sign-language, 26 Sign of clan or gens membership, 420 Silversmith’s tools, 298 Silversmiths, Navajo, 294, 296; Tlinkit, 296 Similarities between Amerind and European words, 25, 28 Singing, 312, 318; in the night, 319 “Singing-girl,” statue, 188 Sīsul, 168, 392 Sitting Bull, 356, 451 Six Nations, 425 Skin armour, 260 Skull-cap, 147 Slab houses, 212 Sledge, 277 Smallpox remedy, 375 Smelting ore, 291 Smoking, 363 Snake dance, 376 Snow-house, 217; iglu, 217; knife, 217; shoe, 280; snake, 323 Soapstone quarries, 273, 286; vessels, 273 Sod house, 217 Soft pottery, 99 Sokus Waiunats and the magic cup, 403 Somaikoli ceremony, 318, 381, 454 Songs of the Ghost dance, 316 Sorceress, 371 Sound writing, 69 Soyaita ceremony, _see_ Somaikoli Spades, 270 Spear- and arrow-heads, 263 Spindle, 126 Spinning, 128 Statue of the Sun, 350 Stelæ, Copan, 186 Stock names, how derived, 30 Stocks, 17 Stone, cutting, 300; graves, 388; implements as charms, 263; statues in Georgia and Tennessee, 176 Stools of Chiriqui, 192 Story telling, 330 String-drill, 252 Sun priests of the Moki, 305 Superstition, 377 Swastika, 63, 458 Sweat, bath, 374; house, 374 Syllabary, Cherokee, 52 Symbol of the peaceful council fire, 418 Symbolic writing, 69 T Tablet of the, Cross, 184; Sun, 186 Tablets, Maya, 184 Taensa house, 208 Tambourine-drum, 308, 313 Taos, 3, 234 Tattooing, 56 Tchungkee game, 328 Tecumseh, 449 Tegua (moccasin), 134 Telleriano-Remensis Codex, 72