Chapter 2-Section 1 Vocab

Storehouses for grain

• Razorbacks

• Grabbling

• Ceremony

• Granaries

Wild hog population

• Granaries

• Razorbacks

• Grabbling

• Pictography

Diving below the surface and reaching into sunken, hollowed-out logs to grab large fish

• Razorbacks

• Granaries

• Grabbling

• Clan

System that used pictures and symbols and was an effective method of communication

• Clan

• Exogamic

• Pictography

• Grabbling

Tracing the line of descent through the mother rather than the father

• exogamic

• clan

• grabbling

• matrilineal

group that included several families with a common ancestry

• matrilineal

• clan

• exogamic

• pictography

requiring clan members to marry outside the clan

• matrilineal

• ceremony

• grabbling

• exogamic

a ritual held in late August in anticipation of a bountiful harvest

• Green Corn Ceremony

• Clan

• Exogamic

• Pictography

a game in which a disc or a small wheel was rolled a t high speed

• stickball

• chunkey

• mingos

• calumet

A game that Mississippi Indians played by throwing a small ball through uprights