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THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Fort Ancient, 113; mound culture, 252, 253
Fortifications, 112-113
Four, sacred number in New World, 201
Fox, 159; society song, Dakota, 145
Fruits, early introduction of European, 41
Fuegians, 43, 66, 132, 177, 235, 236, 301, 307, 323


Gauge, mesh, distribution of, 50
Gens, defined, 155; function, in social organization of Mexico and Peru, 167
Gentes, 154-158
Geographical grouping, linguistic stocks, 291-292, 295
Geometric, art, 79; art, bison area, 82; art, produced by women, 94; art, Pueblo pottery, 81-82; character, of New World designs, 76; designs, in bison area made by women, 82; designs, 86-87
Ghost dance religion, 343
Gifts, formal presentation of, 175
Glaze, on pottery, 71-72
Glazed pottery, distribution of, 257
Glottal stops, peculiarity in American speech, 287
God systems, 198
Gods, Mexican, 182
Gold work, Aztec, 229; Chibcha, 230; in Ecuador, 265; high development of by Cañarian, 232; in Inca area, 232; Maya, 228; in the New World, 126; in Panama, 263
Gouge, 118
Government, compact, coincident with clan-gens organization, 157; Gulf states, 170; higher cultures in the New World, 149; Inca system, 149, 162; predominance of independent tribal, 151; Pueblo, 151; system of the Siouan, 169
Grass dance, ceremonies, 343; diffusion of, 346-348
Grave Creek mound, 252
Great Lake area, archæological characterization of, 253-254
Groundplan, Casas Grandes, 258; characteristic, of New World architecture, 100; Peruvian house group, 104
Group marriage, 176
Grouped clans, 158
Grouping, social, 149-164
Groups, local, 153-154
Guanaco area, 8, 12, 129; changes inaugurated by Spanish colonization, 12; culture characterization of, 232-235
Guatovita, sacrificial shrine, 182


Habitations, intermediate Plains tribes, 351; prevailing, Maya and Nahua area, 104; Plains area, 206; United States and Canada, types and distribution, 108-112
Hafting, 119, 122
Haida, 88, 89, 110, 133, 161, 213; stock, 285, 291; stock, linguistic and tribal grouping, 372
Hair, basis of classification of man, 298; buffalo, spinning of, 45, 49; form, Asia and America, 319; goat and dog, as textile fiber, 45; grouping of New World people by, 312; New World man, 309, 310, 311, 353; straight black, universal in the New world, 298, 299
Hako pipe ritual, Pawnee, 345
Hammer, grooved, North Pacific Coast, 119
Hammerstone, pitted, 120
Hammocks, cotton, 46, 56; southern limits of use, 106
Headdresses, feather, bison area, 61
Head, breadth of, 301; flattening, practised among the Maya, 136; form of, 309; form, Asia and America, 319; form, homogeneity in, 304-306; form, New World, 301-307; form, South America, 325-326; height of, 306-307; length of, 305, 306; measurements, geographical grouping of, 321
Heating, universal method of in America, 112
Heavenly bodies, in myths, 195