Index to the History of Mankind

This index represents work done so far. For an idea of where this is going visit the Overview Index.

• Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Study of Specimens
  • Decorative Art
  • Propagation of Art and Culture
  • Understanding Mankind Through the Material Furniture of Life
  • This Work in Context
• Translator's Note
• The American-Pacific Group of Races - Index
  • The Races of Oceania
    • General Survey of the Group - Illustrations Index
      • The Position of the Pacific Ocean in History
      • The Indians of Columbus
      • Racial resemblances of the people of Oceania to Malays and Indians
      • Racial resemblances of the people of Oceania and America
      • Ethnographic Relationships
      • The Malayo-Polynesians
      • The vacant space between Easter Island and Peru
    • The Races of the Pacific and Their Migrations - Illustrations Index
      • The Island Groups
      • Their climate and their cultivated plants
      • Number of the population, its decrease and shifting
      • Traces of denser population and of civilization
      • Migrations
      • Famine, war, and other grounds of emigration and immigration
      • Shipbuilding resource limitations
      • Ship design
      • Shipbuilding comparisons
      • Ship navigation
      • Orientation
      • Trading Journeys
      • Migrations in mythology
      • Legends of migrations
      • Community of speech
      • The New Zealanders' songs
      • Legends of migrations
      • Date of the Migrations
      • Ethnographical groups in the Pacific
      • Ethnographical groups in the Western Pacific
      • The more easterly islands
      • Genealogy of the Australians
    • Physical Qualities and Intellectual Life of the Polynesians and Micronesians
      • Bodily peculiarities - Racial marks
      • Spiritual Disposition
      • Creative power of the Polynesian mind
      • Mythology
      • Stock of culture
      • Music and dancing
    • Dress, Weapons, and Implements of Polynesians and Micronesians
      • Dress and Ornament
      • Tattooing
      • Modes of Wearing the Hair
      • Objects Used for Ornament
      • Tapa
      • Industrial Activity
      • Weapons and Implements
      • Manufacture of weapons from wood - Spears
      • Limits of Diffusion of Bow and Arrow
      • Slings
    • The Negroid Races of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
      • Distribution - Earlier traces in the Indian Ocean
      • Relation of Papuas and Negritos
      • Character of the Melanesian population
      • Mental qualities of the Melanesian population
    • Dress and Weapons of the Melanesians
      • Clothing
      • Tattooing and painting
      • Ornament
      • Great number and variety of weapons
      • Clubs
      • Stone clubs
      • Bow and arrow
      • Smaller weapons
    • Labour, Dwellings, and Food in Oceania
      • Craftmanship - carving
      • Craftmanship - household utensils
      • Craftmanship - cloth
      • Craftmanship - plaiting
      • Trade and barter
      • Division of labour
      • Hunting and fishing
      • Agriculture and its implements
      • Food
      • Stimulants - betel, kava, tobacco
      • Architecture
      • House interiors
    • The Family and the State in Oceania
      • The Family - Birth
      • Courtship and Weddings
      • Position of Women
      • Tribal Organisation
      • Class Divisions
      • Aristocratic Type of Public Life
      • The Prince and the Nobles
      • The Laws of Taboo
      • Court Ceremonial
      • Limitations of Sovereign Power
      • Warlike Character
      • Military Organisation
      • Modes of Fighting - Sieges - Sea-Fighting
      • Treaties - The Malo
      • Cannibalism
      • Infanticide
    • Religion in Oceania
      • Universal animation
      • Creation of gods
      • Hero-worship
      • Gods of the sea, the air, the land, daily occupations
      • Animation of beasts, plants, and birds
      • Animation of animals, and stones
      • Cosmogany and mythology
      • Tangaroa the Polynesian Zeus, god of the sun, the firmament, the horizon
      • The Tii
      • Beginnings of metaphysics
      • Legend of Papa and Kaka
      • Separation of Heaven and Earth
      • Rangi-Ru and Maui
      • Maui as deity and animating principle of earthquake, fire, and sun
      • Hawaiian and Maori Mauis
      • Tane, god of the sky
      • Polynesian Gods of Olympus and Hades
      • Melanesian Gods of Olympus and Hades
      • Stone images
      • Hero-gods: Meru, Moso, Oru, Maru
      • The Legend of the Fall
      • The Deluge Legend
      • The priests' functions
      • Priests and chiefs
      • Priest-kings
      • Consecration of priests
      • Temples and places of sacrifice
      • Various kinds of sacred places
      • Graves as places of veneration
      • Lack of genuine idols
      • Embodiments of gods
      • Feather-idols
      • Sacrifices to the dead
      • Stay of the soul near the body and about the grave
      • Graves and funeral customs
      • Various forms of interment
      • Skull-worship
      • Graves and funeral customs
      • Burying alive
  • The Americans
    • The Cultivated Races of America
      • The Americans Generally
        • America as an island-continent
        • Mountains, tablelands and rivers
        • America's Climate
        • America's Useful Plants
        • Uses of American Plants
        • American Fauna
        • Identity of the population of America
        • Shape of Skulls
        • Physical Power
        • Character
        • The languages of America
        • Art
        • Diseases

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