Excerpt from Handbook of South American Indians, Vol. 7: Index With the publication of the index volume, the Handbook of South American Indians is complete. This detailed subject index includes tribal names and variants (in italic); the titles of papers listed under subjects, key words, and authors; and entries on animals and plants, geographical names, linguistics, ethnology, archeology, historical events and personages, and missions and religious orders. Information on climatic conditions is often given in geographical sections of the papers. From the beginning it was realized that an index would be necessary to make easily available the vast amount of detailed material contained in the Handbook. The rather long delay in its appearance has been due to the fact that extra funds were not available after the publication of the scientific portion Of the text, and the costs had to be met from the regular printing allotments of the Bureau of American Ethnology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.