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THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Diffusion, in art, 84; Aztec traits of culture, 229; cane baskets, 77; cotton complex, 49; culture traits in the Amazon, 241; grass dance, 346-348; historical examples of, 343; horse-complex in the New World, 346; horse and horse culture, 235; house-building art, 104; maize complex, 27; material complexes in the New World, 346; methods of reckoning time, 131; in mythology, 197; wide, New World culture complexes, 364; Old World traits of culture, 357; Plains Indian societies, 278; similar associated culture complexes, 351; skin clothing in North America, 277; theory, 342, 343; trait-complexes, 348; white-man god idea, 198-199
Digging-stick, Plateau area, 209
Digging tools, 25
Discipline, 177-179
Disease, ceremony for driving out, 182
Dispersion, of language, culture, and somatic characters, 336; of mankind, 318; of primates, 315
Divisions, dual, 158-159
Divorce, regulation of, 177
Dog, culture, 34, 346; eaten by Nootka Cannibal society, 190; first appearance in Paleolithic Europe, 32; food, 39; hair as a textile fiber, 45; packing, distribution, 35; similarity of term for, 293; traction, 346; traction, intrusive in the New World, 35-37; transportation by, 34; use of in the New World, 32-34
Domestication, of animals, 32-38; Inca area, 232
Doors, New World houses, 100
Double-curve, art, origin, 87; design, 85-86
Downward weaving, 56; distribution of, 58
Drama, 198; cultivated by the Inca, 137, 139, 198
Drawing, 137
Dream, dance, 348; to obtain individual guardian, 185
Drilling, methods of, 117, 127, 128
Drums, varieties and distribution, 147
Dual, divisions, 158-159; grouping of tribes, 159
Dug-out, Amazon Basin, 241; canoes, 213; North Pacific Coast, 43
Dyeing, New World, 358


Earth-lodge, 111, 208, 209; distribution, 109
Earthworks, 113
Eastern maize area, 8, 17, 25, 27, 56, 60, 89, 112, 119, 123, 124
Eastern Woodland area, 220, 254, 336, 338, 348; culture characterization of, 219-222
Ecuador, archæological characterization of, 265
Economic areas, 206
Education, Aztec, 229
Effigy, jars, 73-74; mounds, 252; vessels, from Colombia, 265
Elevation, distribution of certain linguistic stocks, coincident with, 237; range of, in which New World cultures expanded, 335-336
Emerald mines, worked in Colombia, 265
Emetics, taken as a means of purification, 200
Endogamy, among Pawnee, 155, 160
Environment, Chibcha area, 230; factor in change of cephalic index, 304; influence of, 337-341; similarity of bison and guanaco area, 38
Eskimo, 29, 34, 35, 37, 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 54, 61, 67, 70, 74, 87, 88, 89, 108, 111, 112, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 127, 129, 132, 133, 137, 143, 159, 167, 173, 175, 176, 177, 188, 189, 200, 201, 254, 260, 277, 299, 300, 319, 320, 323, 326; area, characterization of culture, 215-217; bodily proportions of, 310; characterized as to food, 9; distinct type of culture, language, and somatic type, 333, 334; groups of, 215; migrations, 15, 335; possible historical relation with Algonkin, 122
Etowah mound, 252