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Poncho, 63; skin, bison area, 64

Populations, culture centers, stability of, 340; movements of, 334-335; native, density of, 4; regions of lower culture, 295; shifts in, 331; total of Indians, United States and Canada, 369

Popul Vuh manuscript, 273

Portrait jars, 75

Potlatch ceremony, North Pacific Coast, 175, 214; Plateau area, 210

Pottery, Algonkin, 79; Central American, 73; Chile, 266, 267; Chiriqui, 75; close agreement with diffusion of maize, 69; Colombia, 264; complex, total of processes of making, 351; decorations on, 76, 77, 81, 97; diffusion of, 67, 69; distribution of, 67-69, 92; Eastern Woodland area, 221; Ecuador, 265; Eskimo, 216; forms, 73; intense culture area, 91; intensive pursuit of the art in the South, 69; Inca, 232; Iroquoian, 250-251; Iroquoian, South Atlantic area, 247; lower Mississippi, 70, 75; means of establishing chronologies, 273, 274, 278-279; Mississippi-Ohio area, 252; Mexican, 72; mortuary, 250; North Atlantic and Upper Mississippi types, 71; not dependent on environmental surroundings, 338; painted, in Brazil, 92; Patagonia, 268; Peruvian, 74, 92; processes of manufacture, 69; Pueblo area, 224, 225, 257; South Atlantic type, 70, 248, 249, 250; Southeastern area, 89, 223; Southwestern United States 72, 338: state of Oaxaca, 261; tripod from Panama, 263

Power, supernatural, Dakota and Menomini concept for origin of, 344; shamanistic, source of, 188, 191

Prayer, Navajo, 142-143

Presents, conventional exchange of at marriage, 176

Priest, Amazon area, 188; compared to shaman, 191, 201; priesthood, 190; priesthood, organized, Aztec area, 229; priestly organizations, among the Hopi, 183

Primates, lines of dispersion for, 315; phylogenetic relations of living and extinct groups, 315

Privileges, social, 161-162

Property, conceptions of, 173-175

Puberty ceremonies, 182; California area, 212; Plateau area, 210

Pueblo area, 35, 41, 52, 60, 61, 69, 81, 97, 104, 108, 109, 112, 113, 119, 124, 127, 131, 132, 150, 157, 158, 170, 176, 178, 184, 186, 189, 190, 200, 229, 266, 274, 275; area, archæological classification of, 256-258; culture, extension into Mexico, 227; culture, resemblance of Casas Grandes to, 261; influence on culture of nomadic tribes of the Southwest, 226, 227

Pueblo, Calchaqui structures resemble, 106; form of modern, 104

Pueblo Bonito, reconstruction of, 107

Pulverizing, dried flesh and vegetables, salmon area, 15

Pumpdrill, distribution of, 127,128

Purification, for sacred offices, methods of, 200

Quarries, 123-124; stone at Mitla, 261; quartzite, Plains area, 255-256

Quinoa, 23

Quipu, 130

Quirigua, 135

Quito, archæology of, 265

Rabbit, as culture hero, 199

Rabbitskin blankets, Déné, 218; distribution of, 58-59; Northern Shoshonean tribes, 211; Plateau area, 210

Rabbitstick, Pueblo area, 225

Racial dispersion, 314-319

Rain ceremony, Sia, 225

Rattle, calabash, distribution, 147

Rawhide, painting, bison area, 82; work in, 208, 338

Raven, culture hero, North Pacific Coast, 199; legends, North Pacific Coast, 214

Realism, in designs, 79; textile art, 90