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Maya, 21, 27, 32, 90, 100, 103, 104, 105, 113, 129, 130, 131, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 145, 157, 167, 178, 181, 182, 183, 187, 190, 191, 198, 200, 227, 229, 230, 243, 261, 270, 271, 272, 274, 329, 356, 363; culture, New World origin of, 361

Medicineman, defined, 187

Melanesia, 147; age-societies of, 359; betel nut culture, 29

Metal, high development of work in, Colombia, 264; work in, 124-126, 358

Metate, 224, 263

Midé ritual, 184

Midéwin, Central Algonkin, 189, 208

Midéwiwin, 221

Migrations, 334-337, 339; Amazon tribes, 241; myths recounting, 196; tendency to move within a culture area, 339; seasonal in accordance with food needs, 15-16

Military rule, in Mexican government,

Milk, Indian prejudice against, 39

Minerals, mined in the New World, 123

Mines, 123-124

Mississippi-Ohio area, archæological characterization of, 252-253

Mitla, Hall of the Six Columns, 105; mosaic designs at, 92; ruins of, 261

Moccasins, bison area, 64; Pueblo area, 225

Modeling in clay, 137; distribution of, 138; Peruvian pottery, 92; pottery vessels, 75

Moieties, division into, 201-202; functions among Sauk and Fox, 159; summer and winter, 158

Mongolian, affinities of New World man with, 310; peoples, most striking facial characters, 299; physical characters, found in Andean region, 301

Mongoloid, affinity, of New World peoples, 361; character of nose in the New World, 299; peoples, hair of, 298

Mongoloid-Red peoples, common ancestor group of, 361; distribution of, 362

Morphological, analysis of man, 313-314; characters, New World languages, 290

Morphology, comparative studies in language, 289-293

Mortars, stone, 120; wood, 120

Mosaics, feather, Peru, 61

Mother-in-law taboo, distribution of, 161-162

Mound, builders, Ohio, 123; culture, varieties of, 253; structures, mouth of Amazon, 108

Mounds, building on to secure elevation, 100; burial, South Atlantic area, 248; in Colombia, 264; Mississippi-Ohio area, 252, 253; pyramidal, distribution of, 102; shell, California, 259; Venezuela, 265

Mourning, Charrua, 235

Murder, punishment for, 168, 170

Muskhogean stock, 291, 294, 335; grouped with Natchesan, 285; linguistic and tribal grouping, 373

Music, 145-148; evidence of geographical areas in, 146

Mythologies, distribution of, 195, 197

Mythological areas, 196-197

Mythology, 145, 177, 194-203; Amazon area, 239; California area, 212; Northern California area, 213; Eastern Woodland area, 221; probable means of transmitting culture traits, 358-359; Pueblo area, 225; symbolism in, 180; trickster type, Plateau area, 210

Na-dene, proposed term for grouped North Pacific Coast languages, 291

Nahua, 21, 100, 103, 104, 106, 110, 131, 134, 149, 157, 167, 173, 174, 175, 178, 181, 187, 190, 191, 196, 198, 201, 243, 261, 271; area, characterization of culture, 227-229

Nahuatl stock, combined with Shoshonean stock, 285, 369, 380

Names, designs, 95, 96, 97; pattern, not symbolic, 98; tribal, historical origin of, 151-152