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INDEX
431
Shamanism, 187-191; Amazon area, 239; California area, 212; Déné area, 218; Eastern Woodland area, 222; guanaco area, 235; Siberia, 190; Southeastern area, 224
Shell-heaps, North Atlantic area, 245, 248; no true stratification found in, 275; South Atlantic area, 248, 250; stratification claimed for, 274, 275
Shoshonean, culture, 212; stock, 285, 295, 335; stock, combined with Nahuatl, 285, 369; stock, linguistic and tribal grouping, 375-376
Shuttle, netting, distribution of, 50
Sinew, used in making skin clothing, 46
Sinkers, notched pebbles used as, 50
Sins, confession of, 201
Skin, clothing, tailored, 61-63; dressing, Plateau area, 210; dressing, Southeastern area, 223; designs painted on, 85; painting on, 86
"Skin Shifter," distribution of story, 196
Slips, for coloring pottery, 71
Smelting, of metals, 125
"Snaring the Sun," distribution of story, 196
Snowhouse, distribution of, 112
Snuff taking, distribution of, 29
Soapstone, vessels of, 74
Social control, 166
Social organization, 153-154; Amazon area, 239; California area, 212; Chibcha area, 230; Déné area, 218, 219; Eastern Woodland area, 221; guanaco area, 235; Inca area, 232; Northern California, 213; Plains, 208; Pueblo area, 225; similarity of Mexico and Peru, 167; Southeastern area, 224
Society, evolution of, 164
Somatic, areas, 322-323, 324; characters, grouping by, 320-323; characters, group resemblances in, 320; characters, summary of, 309-310; characters, unity of New World peoples, 326, 361; classification, 298-326; correlations, 333; grouping, roughly coincident with culture grouping, 320-322; homogeneity, in the New World, 308; type, California, 334; type, tendency to conform to environment, 340; units, primary inbreeding local social groups, 320; unity, in each culture area, 333
Somatologies, differentiation of, after cultural pattern, 334
Somatology, general relations with linguistics and culture, 334
Southeastern area, 89, 338; culture characterization of, 222-224; northern traces of culture, 335-336
Speech, American, peculiarities of, 287; chiefly agglutinative in the New World, 290; identity of, coincident