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IN THREE PARTS INDEX 1391
Smallpox, 80, 223, 253
epidemics, 18, 19, 75, 76, 77, 177-178; among: Kwackqwan,
277-278; Teqwedi, 279; Tlingit, 277, Yakufat, 166-167, 230,
277, 278-279
prevention, by dancing 723, by shaman, 674
Spanish spread of, 123
treatment of, 654, 657, 659
Smelt, 373, 388, 402
Smoke hole, 297; Eyak, 300; spirit in, 822
Smokehouses, 302 ff., 321, 383, 384
Smoking, of fish, 400-402
Snares, 367, 370 ff.
Snipe, in Raven Cycle, 870, 871
Snowshoes, 345, 351
Snuff, 410, 411; coagulant, 656; mortar for, 417
Soapberries, 409; trade item, 348, 350
Social classes, 461 ff.
Social order, "opposites" in, 834-835
Social position, behavior appropriate to, 466, 467; in house, 296,
301, 302
Sockeye salmon, 50, 51, 381 f., 383
Songs, as gifts, 352; drinking, 1361-1362; foreign, 1315 ff.; in
hunting rituals, 362, 366, 367, 824; myths and, 839, 869-873;
trade in, 348, 352, 458
Song leader, 323, 442; medicine ""or, 660
Sororate, 484, 490-491
Sorrell. See Wild rhubarb
Soul, animal, 823; human: immortality of, 7; Tlingit concept of,
763, 765 ff., 811
Southern Tutchone, 15, 18, 82, 90; boats of, 331; coastal trade
partners, 214; Dry Bay people and, 349; songs of, 1228-1231,
1362
Spanish, expeditions, 109-110, 111; explorations, 109-110, 111,
139 ff.; Lituya Bay, 119; land claims, Yakutat Bay, 149
Sparrow, communication with, 830, 831; in Raven Cycle, 868;
weather portent, 804
Spatial orientation, directional terms in, 797-798
Spear, hunting, 364 f., 367 f.; in mythology, 888, 889, 898 f.;
salmon, 384; war, 589
Spearheads, 265, 368; omen, 263, 265
Spider, 763, 814; news-bringer, 831
Spu-it(s), abodes of, 816-823; concepts of, 812, 816; disease,
682; intrusions, 699 ff.; invocation of, 675; possession, and
Christianity, 723; shaman relation to, 670; warnings, 703;
world of, 835
Spirit Above, 812, 813, 814, 824; prayers to, 362, 810; wind and,
805
Spirit House, Kayak Island, 102, 103
Sphit representations, masks, 690-692; tapping sticks, 698
Spruce, 31; arrows of, 368; canoes, 337, 343; epidemic preventive,
710; in Raven Cycle, 872; shaman use of, 677, 680; uses of,
31, 381, 386, 401, 413, magical, 831
Spruce bark, medicine, 657; uses of, 314, 396, 408
Spruce gum, face paint, 446; trade item, 348, 349
Spruce pitch, curative, 659
Spruce root, baskets, 342, 427, 428, 699; bracelet, 689; cord,
388, 389, 426; hat, 436, 695; in mythology, 887; uses of,
387, 388, 389, 436
Spruce Root ChUd, 885-886
Squid, as bait, 55, 389, 391, 405
Squirrel, 38, 39; in mythology, 886; in Raven Cycle, 862
Staffs, chiefs', 162; shamans', 696; song leaders', 163
Stdgw^n, 290, 291, 320. See also James, Ned
Stanislas, mementoes of, 261; murder of, 234, 235, 236
Star(s), as sib crest, 834; personification of, 817; time measurement
by, 802; Tlingit concept of, 794, 796; weather portents,
803
Starflower, 32; as medicine, 660, 663
Sta'vAdi, 20, 80, 218, 220, 221, 233, 238. See also Hinyedi
Stick Indians, 214-215. See also Athabaskans
Stockings, moss, 437
Stone (s), amulets, 664; arrowheads, 368; drills, 415; scraper,
422; uses of, 413 ff.
Stone, transformation into, 64, 65, 84, protection against, 259
Stone lamp test, story of, 278-279. See also Lamps
Stories, historical character of, 210; importance of learning,
465; true and false, 210
Storytelling, 310; function of, 838
Strawberries, 408; areas for, 59, 98; bears and, 827; in mythology,
882; in Raven Cycle, 869; Yakutat trade item, 348, 351
Strength, Master of, 763
Stretchers, skin, 423
Suicide, 526; in mythology, 879; shaman's, 685
Sun, abode of spirits, 812; crest, 834; in mythology, 874; in Raven
Cycle, 861, 862, 865; moon and, 836; personification of, 817;
Tlingit concept of, 796; weather portent, 803
Sun Dagger, 694, Pis. 86, 144
Sun spirit mask, 691
Sun's ChUdren, 439; Xatgawet and, 247
Sun's Ears headdress, 694, Pis. 65, 86, 144
"Sun's excrement," 665
Superman, Raven and, 842, 857
Supernatural, Tlingit concept of, 811
Surgery, by shaman, 709, 710, 716-717; native, 654
Suria, Don Tomds de, 139
at Yakutat, 1791, 141 passim; accounts of: boats, 332; boxes,
419; canoes, 334; clothing, 434, 435; food, 394; infants,
503-504; Thngit religion, 810; viUage, 312
journal of, 139, 152
sketches (aquatints), 139, 152, Pis. 40-61
Swan, 43; crest, 826, 833; down, 306, 439, 693, 721; food, 395;
foot, 425 f.; hunting, 373; skin, 425 f., 435
Swanton, John R., 241-242, 269-270; myths coUected by, 841;
on Tlingit religion, 810-812, 815, 816
Sweat baths, 30, 299
Swedish Free Missionary Society, 199
Symbolism, 4- and 8-fold, in:
death rites, 531 ff., 536 ff., 677, 777 f.
house-building potlatch, 761
human anatomy, 761
magical exercises and abstinences, 379,761, 821
menstruant seclusion, 518, 519 ff.
sea lion stomach stones, 829
shaman consultation before hunt, 379
shaman quest, 678 ff., 681, 761
witch torture, 736-737
Syphilis, treatment of, 654, 655, 656, 657
Taboo, 811, 813 ff.; animal, 825, 832; food, 405, 835; glacier, 818;
hunting, 362, 378 (see also specific animals); Raven breaks
843 ff.; weather, 805
Tabooed Lake, 97, 814
TaUless Raven, Chief, QanAxtedi, 274, 275
Tallow, uses of, 410. See also Mountain goat taUow
Tanu:^ (Jim Itinisku), Teqwedi, 324, PL 214
house of, 324
Witchcraft of, 739, 741, 742, 743
Tanux, Tlaxayik-Teqwedi, 176
in war on Russians: 234-235, 260, 262, 264; prisoner, 262, 266:
trial, 234-235