Page:The American Indian.djvu/501

Wood, architectural use of, 104; armor of, 131; carving, 110, 214, 216; work in, Plateau area, 210

Wool, distribution of use, 45; Navajo use of, 60; spinning of, 49

Word distribution, New World languages, problem in, 293

World quarters, four, 201

Writing, invention of, 129; Maya system of, 129, 228; practised in Mexico, 130

Yahgan, 310; stock, 233, 385

Yakima Valley, intermediate culture in Columbia Basin, 260

Year counts, pictographic, 129; Plains Indians, 140, 272–273

Yokes, stone, Mexico, 121

Yucatan, 58, 134; archæological characterization of, 261

Yuman peoples, 212; stock, grouped under Hokan, 285, 369; stock, 381; stock, linguistic and tribal grouping, 378

Zapotec, 227, 261; culture, 329; stock, linguistic and tribal grouping, 381

Zero, discovery and use in mathematics by the Maya, 130

Zume, Tupi god, 199

Zuñi, 81, 161, 224; stock, 378