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Indian, American, popular interest in, 1-2

Individual guardians, 185-186, 192

Individuality, cultural, coincident with political unity, 342

Infants, exposing of, 177

Inheritance, conception of, 173-175; physical traits, perpetuated by, 353; rules of, 175

Inscriptions, dated, of the Maya, 270

Insects, as food, 17, 211

Insignia, feather, bison area, 61

Instability of residence, correlated with use of wild foods, 15

Instruments, musical, 146-147

Interglacial period, marks arrival of man in the New World, 317

Interpretations, of culture, 352-254

Invention, independent, age-graded societies, 163, 350; independent, blowgun, 132; independent, pellet-shooting bow, 133; independent, roller printing, 265; independent, theory of, 343; independent, use of zero, 130

Inventions, Old World, Chinese priority in, 362, 363; special, 127-133

Iron, absence of, in New World culture, 358; age, 275

Iroquoian, area, archæological characterization of, 250-252; stock, 285, 291; stock, linguistic and tribal grouping, 372; tribes, 222

Iroquois, 18, 23, 35, 48, 71, 108, 113, 127, 132, 152, 158, 159, 163, 170, 176, 220, 241, 247, 274, 331; league of the, 151; migrations of, 335

Irrigation, Chibcha area, 230; Inca area, 232; limits of, 28; Southwest area, 226; systems, Peru and Mexico, 106

Jaguar, belief in power of, 200

Jesako cult, Central Algonkin, 189

Joking-relationship, 162

Judicial systems, 166-173; Araucanian, 167; Déné, 168; Hudson Bay Eskimo, 168; Maya, 167; Mexico and Peru, 171; Nahua, 166-167; Peru, 166

Kayak, Eskimo, 43

Kia, 39

Kiva, 178, 257-258

Knives, 118; copper, 121; Eskimo type of, 254; types of, 120

Labor, sexual division of, 19, 22

La Brea, skeleton found in asphalt bed, 325

Lacandone, 69, 90, 228

Ladder of arrows, distribution of story, 196

Land, assigned to family groups, 149; laws, Inca and Nahua, 174

Language, classification of, 282; correlation with culture, 331-333; distribution may be independent of culture, 332; groups in California, 332; independence of New World, 361; stability of, among immigrant groups, 340

Languages, California, 287, 290, 291, 292, 334; classified according to internal structure of the word, 290; differentiation of, after cultural pattern, 334; geographical types, 285; grouping, coincident with cultural characters, 332-333; intergradation of, 280-281; manner of recording by field-workers, 286; similarity within a culture area, 333

Lansing Man, 323

Lasso, 38

Leiotrichi, found in Asian-American group, 312

Linguistic classification, 280-297, 332

Linguistics, correlation with culture, 331-333; general relations with culture and somatology, 334; investigations in, 283

Linguistic, diversity in regions of higher culture, 295; investigation, chief result, 294; stock, conception, and meaning, 283; stocks, Amazon area, 235-237; stocks, California, comparative morphology, 290; stocks, California morphological groups, 292; stocks, California, proposed consolidation of, 293; stocks, distribution of, 294-297; stocks, ex-