CONTENTS

Page

Introduction 9

Salient features 9

Recent explorations and surveys 12

Acknowledgments 20

Habitat 22

Location and area 22

Physical characteristics 22

Flora 31

Fauna 36

Local features 39

Summary history 51

Tribal features 123

Definition and nomenclature 123

External relations 130

Population 134

Somatic characters 136

Demotic characters 164

Symbolism and decoration 164

Face-painting 164

Decoration in general 169

The significance of decoration 176

Industries and industrial products 180

Food and food-getting 180

Navigation 215

Habitations 221

Appareling 224

Tools and their uses 232

Warfare 254

Nascent industrial development 265

Social organization 269

Clans and totems 269

Chiefship 275

Adoption 277

Marriage 279

Mortuary customs 287

Serial place of Seri socialry 293

Language 296

Comparative lexicology

Index

Footnotes

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