Stick-and-groove, 237.
Stone, ornaments of hard, made by low South American tribes, 187.
Stone Age, 192–228; unground, 194–8, 380; ground, 198–204; evidence of, in different parts of the world, 204–28: evidence of language as to, 213.
Stone-boiling, 263-9, 310.
Stone implements. 192–228; late surviving, 192; natural stones used, 192; implements of Drift, 194–7; similar ones elsewhere, 196; of bone caves, 197; of Scandinavian shell-heaps, 198; grinding and polishing, 198–202; flake-knives, 200; celts, 199–202; hammers, 200; axes, 200; special instruments, 200; high-class celts in Australia, 201; pátu-pátu, of New Zealand. 202; general similarity of stone implements of different countries, 203; countries found under Stone Age conditions, 204; stone implements of N. and S. America, 206; Kamchatka, 208; China, 208; Tartary, 209; lightning-stones, 209; stone arrow-heads of Tunguz, 209; of Egyptians, 210; of the field of Marathon, etc., 210; stone implements of Ichthyophagi, 210; of W. and N. Asia, 211; Japan, 211; Java, Malay Peninsula, etc, 212; India, 196, 212; Europe, 213; Aryans, 2 3; evidence of language as to, 213, etc.,; use of stone implements by Jews and Alnajah, 214–217; used for circumcising, 214–217; for slaughtering beasts. 217, 223, 227, for incision of corpse to he embalmed in Egypt. 217; for extracting balsam of Judaea, 219; stone implements in Arabia, 218; Africa, 220–3: Canary Islands. 222; thought to be thunderbolts, 223; to be natural stones, 209, 225: used to sacrifice victims with in Africa, 223; in Rome, 227.
Stumpy-tailed animals, myths relating to, 365.
Sugar, 179.
Sun-myths, 150–4, 346–53, 364.
Supernatural beings, 109; names of, not mentioned, 143, 147.
Superstitions, 123–49, 218, 304, 378; relating to thunderbolt, 225; needfire, 256; albino elephant, 276; seeds put with gold-dust, etc., 276; touching fire with knife, etc., 277; as to god-parents, 304. See also Customs.
Swan-coat, 355.
Swiss lake-dwellers, 189, 193.
Symbolic offerings, 121; charms, 131, etc.
Tabu, 130, 141, etc., 291.
Tail-fishing, etc., 365–9.
Tally, 166.
Tasmanians, 76, 196, 235, 335.
Tea-urn, 165.
Teeth, artificial, 173; stopping teeth with gold, 173.
Textile fabrics, 188–91.
Thunderbolt, 209, 212, 222, 224–8.
Toddy, 179.
Toltecs, 151–4.
Tom Thumb, 346–9.
Tortoise-myth, 313, 341–4.
Totem, 284.
Traditions, 306–14; of inventors and civilizers, 150–4; of quipu in China, 154, 307; of Polynesia, 307; Central America, 308; in tropics, apparently belonging to high latitudes, 308; of introduction of rice, 309; first appearance of white men among N. W. American tribe, 310; possible recollection of mammoth, colossal tortoise, great ape, etc., 312–4; deluge, 325–32.
Tree, Heaven-, 349–58.
Tribes said to be deficient in speech, 75–9; degraded, 184; said to have no fire, or no means of fire-making, 229–37.
Utterance, not by speech only, 14; its relation to thought, 68–74.
Veddahs, 76–8, 239, 291.
Vei syllabarium, 102.
Vessels:—for stone-boiling, 263–9, 310; of bark, paunch, hide, bamboo, etc., for setting over fire, 269–71; of pot-stone, 270; pottery, 270–4; gourds, etc., plastered with clay, 272.
Vestal Virgins, 250–2.
Wattled cloth, 189.
Weaving, 179, 189.
Whately, Archbishop, his theory of civilization, 160–3.
Wild fire, 254.
Words, superstitions concerning, 124–7, 139–49.
World, conception of, among lower races, 341, 358.
Writing see Picture-writing. Phonetic characters; use of, in magic, etc., 126.
