TOTEM: An animal, plant or inanimate object that is regarded as the symbol of a social or political group.
TUMPLINE: A sling or pack strap that rests on the forehead, passes over the shoulders, and is used for carrying a load on the back.
TURKEY-TAIL: A large spearhead, broadly oval in the middle and double-pointed with notches near one end.
TYPE STATION(S): The site (or sites) that at present seem, to the author, to give the fullest view of life in a [subculture], including as far as possible a village (or camp) and burial site.
WAR ([ARCHAIC]): The blood feud. In the Archaic [period], this was the method of interfamily or intergroup retaliation for murder or other serious injury to one [family] or local group by a member of another. It was carried on by alternate sneak raids between the local settlements involved, with the object of killing one or more members of the group attacked, (destroying property), and escaping without loss.
WAR (PLANT-RAISERS): Hostilities between plant-raising tribes were pursued by sneak raids having for their objectives the surprise and attack of villages, the ambush of enemy parties, and the capture of prisoners. (Murder, black magic, and other crimes committed within the tribe were generally dealt with by socio-judicial custom).
WATTLE AND DAUB: A framework of posts, interlaced with branches and twigs and plastered over with clay for house and fortification walls common in [Middle Phase] and probably in other periods.
WIGWAM: As used here, a roughly hemispherical hut having a framework of poles set in the ground with their tops arched over and secured together, the whole covered over with leafy branches, skins, bark, mats or thatch.
WINDBREAK: A vertical or inclined framework of poles covered with branches and leaves, skins, bark, etc. erected by primitive peoples as a shelter against wind, sun, and storm.
WOODLAND: One of the major archaeological patterns of the eastern, southern and central United States, characterized by plant-raising (except possibly in its [Initial Phase]), by elongated globular clay pots (with cord-roughened exteriors, pointed bottoms, and incised line and punctate decoration), hamlets or small villages (except in the [Classic] [Phase]), with [flint] [spearheads] (but no [arrowheads] except in [Final Phase]).