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Tricks, shamanistic, 188–189

Trujillo, 266, 273

Trumpets, 147; Bronze age, 140

Tubular pipe, distribution, 120

Tuckahoe, bread made from, 18

Tumpline, 39, 40

Turkey, domestication of, 21, 32, 41, 224

Turtles, great, at Quirigua, 135

Twined basketry, 52, 54

Twins, story of, 197

Uaupés, 182

Ulotrichi, found in Australian-African group, 312

Underground houses, 111; Plateau area, 209, 210

Unfaithful wife, distribution of story, 196

Urn burial, 73, 106, 249, 267–268

Uxmal, 102, 271

Vaginal teeth, distribution of story, 196

Variability, of head form, 303

Vegetable, foods, salmon area, 15; southeastern area, 223; southwestern Déné, 218; products, secondary dependence on in various areas 12–14

Venezuela, highland populations exterminated by the Spaniards, 21

Ventriloquism, in Amazon area, 189

Venus, important god of the Aztec and Maya, 83

Verse, aboriginal, 141; origin of in song, 145; Eskimo, 143

Vihuk, Cheyenne god, 198

Village sites, North Atlantic area, 247, 248

Villages, fairly permanent, salmon area tribes, 15

Viracocha, Inca god, 198, 232; Peruvian culture hero, 180, 183

Vision, origin of supernatural power, 344; to obtain personal guardian, 192

Vocabularies, classification of linguistic stocks, based on, 281

Wabano cult, Central Algonkin, 189

Wakan, compared to Peruvian huaca, 181; defined, 201

Walls, forms of, 104; New World buildings, 100

Walum Olum, Delaware, 273

Wampum, belts woven of, 85

War, 178; honors, graded, 179; song, Pawnee, 143–144

Warfare, 4

Weapons, 131; guanaco area, 234; North Pacific Coast area, 214; Plateau area, 210

Weaves, basketry, 51; fineness of in Peruvian cloth, 60

Weaving, cedarbark, 58; Chonoans, 235; Déné region, 86; distribution of, 57; Eastern Woodland area, 221, 338; Huichol, 90; high development among the Maya, 227; Inca area, 232; Maya, 90; modern Mexican, 91; Navajo, 77, 81; New World, 358; North Pacific Coast area, 214; Northern Shoshonean tribes, 211; Ojibway, 55; Pueblo area, 224; sage-brush bark, 58; Southeastern area, 223, 338; technical limitations of, 92; technique, influence on design, 77, 79; types of in the New World, 56; wild goat wool, 58

West Indies, 22, 39, 41, 43, 134

Whirling log symbol, Navajo, 97, 98

Whistling jars, 73, 232

Wheel, absence of in New World culture, 37, 69, 129, 358; development in the Old World, 127

Whipping, ceremonial, 178, 182

Wickerwork basketry, 52

Wild plants, as food in Pueblo area, 21

Wild rice culture, Eastern Woodland area, 221

Windows, rarity of in New World houses, 100

Witches, trial of among Iroquois, 170, 172

Wives, exchange of, 175–176, 218

"Woman who went to the Sky," distribution of story, 196

Women, agriculture work of, 19, 22; taboo against, in ceremonies, 182