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Bread, acorn, 16; cassava root, 28; coonti roots, 222-223; hemlock bark, 15; tuckahoe and persimmon, 18

Breadth, of head, 305, 306

Bricks, made in Mexico, 72

Bridges, suspension, in Peru, 107

Bronze, Age, 275; made in Inca area, 232; use of in the New World, 125-126, 358

Brush shelters, 111

Buffalo, dependence on, by Plains Indians, 206, 217; hair, used as fiber, 45; hair, spinning, 49; hair weaving, northern extension of, 60. See also bison

Building, art, diffusion of, 104; northern limits of Nahua, 103-104

Buildings, Peru and Yucatan, differences in, 101; stone, Pueblo and Eskimo areas, 108

Bull-boat, 43, 235

Bundles, ceremonial, 186; rituals for,

Burial, form of, 249, 250; in gravel banks, Mississippi-Ohio area, 253; mound, distribution, 102-103, 265; platform, guanaco area, 235; urn, 73, 107, 249, 267

"Burning Cannibal," distribution of story, 196

Cache, important invention caribou area, 10-11; pits, North Atlantic area, 247, 248

Cahokia mound, 103, 252

Calabash rattle, distribution of, 189

Calchaqui, 107, 266, 267; stock, 233, 235, 382

Calendar, system, Maya, 181, 228; Maya, aid to establishing chronology, 270

California area, archæological characterization of, 258; characterization of culture, 212-213, 338

California culture traits, in Plateau area, 211

Calpulli, function of, among Nahua, 166

Calumet, pipe, 169; procedure, Southeastern area, 224

Camas, chief root used in salmon area, 15; roasting, distribution of, 338

Canadian area, archæological characterization of, 260

Cane, baskets, 54-55, 77, 89, 94; tube, for smoking, 121

Cannibal, cult, North Pacific Coast tribes, 214; feast, Amazon tribes, 239; society, Nootka, 189

Cannibalism, Inca area, 232; South Atlantic area, 250

Canoe culture, Amazon area, 241

Canoes, 41-44; West Indies, 43

Carib, 43, 162, 231, 236, 237, 242; stock, 294, 335, 382

Caribou area, 34, 35; tribal groups in, 9; dependence of Canadian tribes and Eskimo upon, 9, 10

Caribou, range of, 7; range and importance of in Mackenzie area, 217

Carving, in Columbia Basin, 259; distribution of, 88, 138; ivory, 88; North Pacific Coast area, 110, 214; wood, 87, 216; stone, 134

Casas Grandes, 258, 261

Cassava, area of cultivation, 28; preparation for use, 28. See Manioc

Catlinite, use of in Great Lakes area,

Cattle, introduction of, 12, 37

Cave culture, in the Old and New Worlds, 276

Cedarbark, fiber, 45; weaving, 58, 131

Ceilings, 104; absence of vaulted, Nahua buildings, 104

Celt, 118, 119; hafted, 122; Iroquoian area, 250; jadeite, 121

Central Algonkin, 58, 184, 186, 188, 189, 220

Central Mexico, archæological characterization of, 261

Cephalic index, distribution in the New World, 301-304; rapid change in, immigrant population of United States, 303-304; range and variability of, 303; tribal groups, according to culture areas, 322

Ceramic arts, 67-75