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THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Realistic, art, New World, 98; art, produced by men, 94; art, rarity of, 76; carving, 88; carving, in architectural decoration, 92; designs, bison area, 82; designs, caribou and eastern maize area, 84; designs, North Pacific Coast, 89; designs, Peruvian textiles, 92; designs, pottery, 82; origin of art, theory, 95
Religion, Chibcha, Maya, and Nahua, 181; Maya, Nahua, and Inca, 131; New World, source of, 191; and ritualism, 192
Religious, conceptions, and mythology, 198-202; culture, Pueblo Indians, 183; culture, Siberia, 190; system, Aztec, 229; system, in Peru, 180-181
Rhea, economic importance of, 12
Rhythm, in aboriginal music, 146
Rice, wild, as food, 18
Rio Grande Pueblos, 224
Ritualism, 180-185; Aztec, 229; Eastern Woodland area, 221; high development of, coincident with distinction between priest and shaman, 188; importance of music in study of, 147-148; maximum development among Maya, 190; personal relation in, 191-193; Pueblo area, 225; Southeastern area, 223; Southwestern area, 226
Ritualistic, observances, 180-192; performance, California, 184; plays, North Pacific Coast, 184; procedures, Pueblo, 183; system, North Pacific Coast area, 214
Rituals, agricultural, 182; distinct forms of, 344; dramatic and poetical merit of, 198; grass dance, 348; Pacific Coast, 184; Plains area, 345; transfer of, 345
Road-building, Mexico and Peru, 106
Rolling rock, distribution of story, 196
Roofs, Nahua and Peruvian buildings,
Rope-tying trick, distribution of, 188
Row-lock, used by Eskimo, 43
Ruins, ancient Maya cities, 261, 262; historical relation of, 101-102; most impressive in the New World, 227; Pueblo area, groups of, 256
Sacrifices, animals and inanimate objects, 181; to gods of the Peruvians, 181; great number of Aztec, 229; human, 190-191; human, Maya and Nahua, 181; human, Pawnee and Pueblo, 183; Inca area, 232
Sacsahuaman, 113
Sandal, a correlative of textile clothing, 64
Sails, use of, 43
Salt, manufactured and traded, Colombia, 21
Santa Rosa Xlabpak, restoration and groundplan, 103
Scales, in aboriginal music, 146
Schools, for children, 178
Seats, stone, 121
Shaman, distinguished from medicineman, 187-190; distinguished from priest, 201; relation to judicial system, 171-172