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few tribes that seem scarcely to have passed that indefinite
boundary between the two social states. Philologic research leads to the
same conclusion.
Nowhere in North America have a people been discovered who have
passed beyond tribal society to national society based on property, i.e.,
that form of society which is characteristic of civilization. Some
peoples may not have reached kinship society; none have passed it.
Nations with civilized institutions, art with palaces, monotheism as the
worship of the Great Spirit, all vanish from the priscan condition of
North America in the light of anthropologic research. Tribes with the
social institutions of kinship, art with its highest architectural
development exhibited in the structure of communal dwellings, and
polytheism in the worship of mythic animals and nature-gods remain.

INDEX
Adultery, Wyandot law for, 66
Chiefs, Wyandot, Election of, 61, 62 Crimes, Wyandot laws for, 66, 67
Encampment regulations (Wyandot), 64
Family, The term, defined, 59 Fellowhood, Wyandot institution of, 68
Gens, The term, defined, 59 Government, Wyandot civil, 61 Functions
of, 63
Kinship society, 68, 69

Maiming, Wyandot law for, 66 Marriage regulations (Wyandot), 63, 64
Migration regulations (Wyandot), 64 Military government (Wyandot),
68 Murder, Wyandot law for, 66
Name regulations of the Wyandot tribe, 64
Outlawry, Wyandot institution of, 67
Personal adornment regulations (Wyandot), 64 Phratry defined, 60, 61
Society, Kinship, 68, 69
Theft, Wyandot law for, 66 Treason, Wyandot law for, 67 Tribal
government based on kinship, 68, 69 Tribal society, A study of
(Wyandot), 59-69
Witchcraft, Wyandot law for, 67 Wyandot criminal laws, 66, 67 for
adultery, 66 for maiming, 66 murder, 66 of outlawry, 67 for theft, 66
for treason, 67 for witchcraft, 67 Wyandot government, 59-69 Wyandot
military government, 68 Wyandot regulations, 63, 64 of encampment,
64 of migration, 64 of name, 64 of personal adornment, 64 Wyandot
rights, 65 of community, 65 of person, 65 of religion, 65

[Transcriber's Note: This index is a subset of the original index
assocated with _First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80_, by J. W. Powell.]

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