Natchez Indians of North America, their rain-making, i. 249;

claim kindred with the sun, i. 313 n. 3;

special terms used with reference to persons of the blood royal among the, i. 401 n. 3;

their perpetual fires, ii. 262 sq.;

customs of man-slayers among the, iii. 181;

their festival of new corn, viii. 77 sqq.;

their festival of New Fire, viii. 135 sqq.

Nathuram, image supposed to make women fruitful, xi. 3

National character partly an effect of geographical and climatic conditions, vi. 217

Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice, v. 303 sqq.