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INDEX.
KAFIRS.
MYTHS.
Kafirs, 141, 147, etc.

Kamchadals, 270, 239, 265, 277, 327, etc.

Kang-hi, his Encyclopædia, 209, 317, 328.

Kava or Ava. 180.

Kettles, of bark, paunch, hide, split bamboo, potstone, etc., 269–72.

Khorsabad, obsidian flake-knives under temple of, 211.

Kings' and chiefs' names not mentioned, 143–5.

Kissing, etc., 51.

Kjökkenmöddings, stone implements of, 196–8.

Knives, stone flake-, 195–9, 211.

Language, origin of, 15, 55–8, 62; Chinese myth of, 58; stories of attempts to discover original l. by experiments on children, 79–81; speech compared with gesture-language, 58–65; predicative and demonstrative roots compared with two classes of gesture-signs, 59–61; concretism, 62; verb-roots, 63; syntax, 63; relation of speech to thought, 67–74; deaf-and-dumb of themselves speak, 71–4; their lip-imitation of words, 72; language modified by superstitions concerning words in Polynesia, 145, Australia 145, Tasmania 145, among Abipones 146, Kafirs 147, Yezidis 147, English and Americans 148; evidence from language as to progress in culture, 163–6, 256; as to Stone Age, 213–5.

Lartet and Christy, on bone caves of Périgord, 197.

Lazarus, Prof., 216.

Letters. See Phonetic Characters.

Life, future, 5–10, 296, 354–7.

Little Red Riding-Hood, 346.

Livre des Sauvages, 88.

Lubbock, Sir J. , division of Stone Age, 194; on fireless tribes, 236.

M'Lennan, J. F., marriage-laws of lower races, 279; form of capture, 287.

Madagascar, 167–9, 225, 240.

Magic and sorcery, theory of, 116–39, 304, 380.

Malay stone-implements, 215.

Malayo-Polynesians, 167, 178, etc.

Mammoths and other extinct animals, possible recollection of, 311; myths derived from remains of, 313–20.

Man his degeneration in size and length of life, 324; mental uniformity of, 372–4; primary condition of, 379.

Man in the Moon, etc., 334.

Man swallowed by Fish, 344–46.

Map-making, 89.

Marriage, prohibition of, among Kindred, 279, etc.,; in Europe, 279; Asia, 280–2; Africa, 282; Australia, 282; America, 283–6; extended to imaginary kindred, 288; wife carried off by force, 286, 287; crossing male and female lines, 283–8.

Martins, Dr. v., his theory of degeneration, 135, 375.

Massagetæ, 207.

Metal-working in Mexico and Peru, 206.

Mexico;—picture-writing, 91-7, 312; calendars, 91, 339; phonetic characters, 92–6; Quetzalcohuatl and the Toltecs, 151–4; stone implements, 191; metal-work, 206; tire drill, 240; Humboldt on connexion of Mexican civilization with Asia, 91, 207, 276, 312, 339.

Mirrors of pyrites and obsidian, 250, 260.

Moslems, their opinion on images, 120.

Mound-builders of Mississippi Valley, 205.

Müller, Prof. Max, 61, 147.

Myths, 311–71, 378; of origin of language, 58; connected with shapes of rocks, stone circles, statues, 113; of footprints, 114; of sympathetic plants, 132; of Quetzalcohuatl, 151–4; Sun-myths, 150–3, 346–52, 364; myths relating to stone arrow-heads, 224; to dolmens in North Africa, 222; of thunderbolt, 223–7; of Prometheus, 229, 255; of origin of fire in Polynesia, 231; Chinese, 254; Phœnicia, 254; of monstrous tribes, 234; growth of, 233; permanence of, 234; of Old World transferred to New, 249; geographical distribution of, 333–71; common nature and character of, among different races. 333–37; man in the moon, etc., 334; sun and moon, brother and sister, 335; Castor and Pollux in Tasmania, 335; transmission of, 337, etc., 378; derived from Bible stories, etc., 337–9; of America compared with those of Old World, 339–71; World-Tortoise, Tortoise Island, etc., 340–4; Man swallowed by fish, 344–6; Sun-Catcher, 346–52; Tom Thumb, 344–6; Little lied Kiding-Hood, 346; Jack and the Beanstalk, 349–57: ascent to heaven by the Tree, 350–7; Swan-coat, 355;