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Show BASIS OP RICAN HISTORY j ; ranges, 7; volcanic, 8; highest peak, 8; plateau, 12; age, 14; forests, 40, 43. 44- Corn, crop, 46; nativity, 46; distribution, yield, 47. Costanoan family, 93. Costume, clothing, 229, 230; ceremonial dress, 231, 260; hair- dressing, 230; personal ornaments, 231; painting, 232. Cotton, beginning of culture, 51; growth of production, 52; crop, 52; seed products, 52. Council, Iroquois league, 155- 157; Iroquois clan, 159; Iroquois tribe, 160; Creek village 168, 172; clan, universal institution, 204; free speech, 205; authority, 205, 267; importance, 205; tribal, 210. Cree, Algonquian, 149. Creek, Muskhogean, physique, 167; social organization, 168; war titles, 169; classes, 169; arrangement of village, 169; '* Great House" and " Council House," 169,170; green- corn dance, 170- 172; position of woman, 172; confederacy, 172, 246; initiation of military measures, 172; downfall, 173; present condition, 173. * 7°- Culture hero, Algonquian, 153: general, 255- 257. Cumberland Gap, importance, 30. 32, 34- Cumberland Road, 33. DANCE, importance, 260. See also Ceremonials. Deer family, economic importance, 58; white- tailed, 59; mule- deer, 59; elk, 59; moose, 60; caribou, 61; prong-horn antelope, 61; bibliography, 276. Delaware, Algonquian, 150; seat, 163. Descent, Eskimo male, 108; mixed, of northwest coast tribes, 112, 129; Sioux male, 140; Pawnee male, 142; Algonquian female, 152; Iroquois female, 157; Creek female, 168; Pueblo female, 186; general female, 196- 198. Disease, Indian susceptibility, 266. Dog, Eskimo use, 106; Sioux use, 134; Indian domesticated, 225; in harness, 236. Dogrib, Athapascan, 118. Drainage, systems, 13, 14; continental watershed, 24; bibliography, 272, Dugout, i n , 238. EASTERN woodland groups. Set Algonquian, Cherokee, Iro-quoian, Muskhogean. Economic life, Indian, character of trails, 31; value of buffalo, 64; not nomadic, 96, 99, 215, 216; number, 99, 100, 216; Eskimo, 105- 107; of northwest coast tribes, no; their credit system, 11 j ; of northern interior tribes, 122- 124; migration of culture, 124; Sioux, 134- 137: Pawnee, 142; Kiowa, 143; Algonquian, 151, 152; Navajo, 17 7 - 180; Havasupai, 181; Pueblo, 184,185; houses, 217- 221; woman's work, 221; food, 222- 224, 226; hunting, 224; cooking, 225; domesticated animals, 225; cannibalism, 226, 243; acquaintance with metals, 227; raw materials, 227; uneven distribution of arts, 228; skin-dressing, 228, 229; clothing, 229; pottery, 233- 234; bas- |