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Index.
Paraphernalia of Worship:

Amulets, 61; beads, 6; bowls, 264 buffalo skull, 262; doll, 64; hearth, 262; masks, 77; meteorites, 199; pipes, 262; prayer-sticks, 216; tree-trunk, 61.

Plants, in folk-lore and myth:

Corn, 163; cottonwood, 187; echium vulgare, 6; oak, 29; pine, 17, 29, 67; persimmon, 67; poplar, 226; willow, 166; tobacco, 60, 262.

Polygamy, 84.
Prince, J. Dyneley, Some Forgotten Place-Names in the Adirondacks:

Derivation of the name Adirondacks, 123; of Saranac, 124; Abenaki name for Racquette Lake, Tupper Lake, 125; Long Lake, 126; Forked Lake, Mount Marcy, St. Regis Reserve, Indian name of Bog Lake, Round Lake, 127; Lake Clear, Black Lake, 128.

Rae, John, Laiekawai: a Legend of the Hawaiian Islands:

Introductory note, 241; antiquity of Hawaiian legend, memory of bards, 243; tales are long narrations with elaborate plots, 244; nakedness of islanders no mark of savagery, 245; tale, 247; exposure of female children, 248; geological character of Hawaiian caverns, 249, rainbows attendant on chiefs, 251; Hawaiian admiration of beauty, 252; persons of main actors as stake in a game, 253; boxing-match, 254; second-sight, 255; goddess of the mountain, 256; chiefs of divine extraction, 257; sisters as supporters of their brother, song of sisters, 258; continuation of tale, familiar animal demons, forms of marriage contract, 259; hero as sun-god, his degradation, heroine worshipped as deity of twilight, 260.

Readings:

Ashanti fetishes and oracles, 61; Yaqui witchcraft, 64; traditionary American local dishes, 65; fox possession in Japan, 222; garments of the dead, love charms at wishing-wells, fairies as fishes, 291; some homely viands, 292.

Record of American Folk-Lore, see Chamberlain. A. F.
Russell, F., Athabascan Myths:

Loucheux tribe: I. Little Hairy Man, 11; II. The Raven, 14; III. The Wolf and Wolverine, 15; Slavey tribe; IV. The Great Beaver, 16; V. Origin of the pine, 17; VI. Why the wolverine became a thief, 18.


Signs:

Death, 297; weather, 297.

Slavery, 83. Spirits, 146, 226.


Transformation, 14, 224. Tribes, Indian:

Abenaki, 124.
Algonkian, 271.
Algonquin, 123.
Arapaho, 50, 165.
Athabascan, 11.
Cheyenne, 161.
Dakota, 44.
Huron, 84, 91.
Iroquois, 82, 123.
Loucheux, 11.
Maidu, 267.
Menomoni, 45.
Micmac, 50, 93, 166.
Mohawk, 123.
Ojibwa, 45.
Omaha, 176.
Onondaga, 50, 84.
Pawnee, 261.
Pa-Uta, 45.
Pueblos, 225.
Selish, 45.
Seneca, 86.
Shoshoni, 45.
Slavey, 16.
Wyandot, 240.
Yaqui, 64.
Zuñi, 130, 132.

See also Record of American Folk-Lore


Visions, 67.


Weather, 191.

Wiltse, H. M., In the Southern Field of Folk-Lore:

A bewitched gun, 209; a bewitched churning, 210; the mysterious deer, 211; a hoodoo charm, 212.

Woman, position of, 81, 85, 242.