INITIAL PHASE: The earliest pottery-making cultures of [Woodland] in northern Illinois, archaeologically known as early Woodland.
INITIATION RITES: Puberty rites. As used in this paper, the ceremonies by which a boy on “becoming of age” is admitted to adult membership in the tribe. Somewhat simpler rites are performed for girls also in some tribes.
INSIGNE: (Plural insignia) Any artifact worn by [primitive people] as a symbol of rank or class, birth (in a particular [family]), office, priesthood, or of individual prowess.
INSTITUTIONS: See [Social Structure].
JEWELRY: Any object other than [insignia], paint, or clothing worn by primitive man as personal adornment.
KINCAID COMMUNITY: The site of a [Middle Phase] village, mounds, fortifications and other cultural remains in Pope and Massac counties, Illinois, on the Ohio River a few miles above Paducah, Kentucky.
LAKE BAIKAL: A large inland lake in the south of Siberia. Pottery from the surrounding region resembles generalized [Woodland] ware, especially that of the [Initial Phase].
LINEAGE: The social group (including dead persons) whose members are descended from some certain or mythical ancestor, either male or female as the custom prevails, and which considers itself a distinct social unit. (See also [Extended Family].)
LITHIC: A term employed in this paper as embracing cultures roughly equivalent to those of the Self-Domestication [Stage], but without pottery.
MANA: Superhuman power that primitive man believed to reside in certain inanimate objects, in certain persons at times and in spirits, that under suitable conditions could be transferred either wholly or in part to other objects or persons. Improperly handled it was a source of grave danger.