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Fort Ancient, 113; mound culture, 252, 253

Fortifications, 112-113

Four, sacred number in New World, 201

Fox, 159; society song, Dakota, 145

Fruits, early introduction of European, 41

Fuegians, 43, 66, 132, 177, 235, 236, 301, 307, 323

Gauge, mesh, distribution of, 50

Gens, defined, 155; function, in social organization of Mexico and Peru, 167

Gentes, 154-158

Geographical grouping, linguistic stocks, 291-292, 295

Geometric, art, 79; art, bison area, 82; art, produced by women, 94; art, Pueblo pottery, 81-82; character, of New World designs, 76; designs, in bison area made by women, 82; designs, 86-87

Ghost dance religion, 343

Gifts, formal presentation of, 175

Glaze, on pottery, 71-72

Glazed pottery, distribution of, 257

Glottal stops, peculiarity in American speech, 287

God systems, 198

Gods, Mexican, 182

Gold work, Aztec, 229; Chibcha, 230; in Ecuador, 265; high development of by Cañarian, 232; in Inca area, 232; Maya, 228; in the New World, 126; in Panama, 263

Gouge, 118

Government, compact, coincident with clan-gens organization, 157; Gulf states, 170; higher cultures in the New World, 149; Inca system, 149, 162; predominance of independent tribal, 151; Pueblo, 151; system of the Siouan, 169

Grass dance, ceremonies, 343; diffusion of, 346-348

Grave Creek mound, 252

Great Lake area, archæological characterization of, 253-254

Groundplan, Casas Grandes, 258; characteristic, of New World architecture, 100; Peruvian house group, 104

Group marriage, 176

Grouped clans, 158

Grouping, social, 149-164

Groups, local, 153-154

Guanaco area, 8, 12, 129; changes inaugurated by Spanish colonization, 12; culture characterization of, 232-235

Guatovita, sacrificial shrine, 182

Habitations, intermediate Plains tribes, 351; prevailing, Maya and Nahua area, 104; Plains area, 206; United States and Canada, types and distribution, 108-112

Hafting, 119, 122

Haida, 88, 89, 110, 133, 161, 213; stock, 285, 291; stock, linguistic and tribal grouping, 372

Hair, basis of classification of man, 298; buffalo, spinning of, 45, 49; form, Asia and America, 319; goat and dog, as textile fiber, 45; grouping of New World people by, 312; New World man, 309, 310, 311, 353; straight black, universal in the New world, 298, 299

Hako pipe ritual, Pawnee, 345

Hammer, grooved, North Pacific Coast, 119

Hammerstone, pitted, 120

Hammocks, cotton, 46, 56; southern limits of use, 106

Headdresses, feather, bison area, 61

Head, breadth of, 301; flattening, practised among the Maya, 136; form of, 309; form, Asia and America, 319; form, homogeneity in, 304-306; form, New World, 301-307; form, South America, 325-326; height of, 306-307; length of, 305, 306; measurements, geographical grouping of, 321

Heating, universal method of in America, 112

Heavenly bodies, in myths, 195