INDEX. 



Abandonment of settlements by aborigines, S8 

 Aboriginal nations, remains of the Mississippi valley 

 are referred to various, 31) 

 remains, localities where found in Tennessee, 104 

 eoUectiou of, at State Capitol at Nasliville, Ten- 

 nessee, 139 

 destruction of, 82 

 of Kentucky, Tennessee, etc., abandonment by 



primitive inhabitants of, 88 

 near Pulaski, Giles t'o., 'I'ennessee, 108 

 rock paintings, 137, 138 



settlement occupied the hill upon which is resi- 

 dence of Col. Overton, 31) 

 town, remains of, on Ciierry Creek, White Co., 

 Tenn., 133, 13-1 

 Aborigines, Bryan Edwards on excessive sensuality of 

 West Indian, tJT 

 of America, burial modes practised by the, 7-35 

 of America, diseases and pestilences among, 8!t-99 

 of Tennessee, origin of, 120 

 resemblance of crania of, to those of Natchez, Toltecs, 



and Peruvians, 120, 121 

 wigwams of, 38 

 Ac.ijetl, an aromatic substance of the Mexicans, 27 

 Acolhnan nation, burial cnstoms of the, 28 

 Adair, James, on burial customs of the Cherokees and 

 Chaotaws, 17 

 on ravages of smallpox, 97 



states that the Chactaws practised head-llattening, 

 122 

 Adirondacks, destruction of the, 152 

 Alabama, reference made to Pickett's History of, 14 

 Alesco, cow-pox in, 96 

 Alibamo, numerous population in, lO.'j 

 Alibamons, burial customs of the, 33 

 Altar from ci-ntre of mound opposite Nashville, Tenn., 42 

 in centre of burial mound on West Harpeth River, 



Tenn., 81 

 in mound at Oldtown, Tenn., SB 

 in oblong mound near Franklin. Tennessee, 57 

 -like surface iu mound on West Harpeth River, 

 Tenn., 80 

 Anahuac, Aztecs took possession of, 120, 132 

 cross iu temples of, 78 

 temples of, terra cotta heads from, 120 

 Angelopoli, deaths from smallpox in, 95 

 Animals, bones of, in graves, 49 



Apoplexv common among people practising head flatten- 

 ing, 124 

 Aqueducts within inclosure near Paris, Tennessee, 131 

 Ardune, Joannes ah. respecting syphilis, (;9 

 Arica, mummies exhumed near, by Dr. Ruschenberger, 



33 

 Arickarees. smallpox ravages among. 97 

 Arkansas, burial customs of the. 17. 33 

 Arrow-heads from Oldtown, Tenn., 87 



found around mounds on Cumberland River, Tenn., 



49 

 found in alluvial plains around the burying ground 



opposite Nashville, Tenn., 7 

 fouud in graves at Floyd's Lick, Tenn., 12 



Arrow-heads found in mound in North Nashville, Tenn., 

 ,'■.0 

 found in mound opposite Nashville, Tenn., 4(i, fig. 12 

 found in Tennessee illustrate condition of former 



inhabitants, 1 

 from ancient work near Franklin, Tenn., 7Ij 

 from fielils in valley of Duck River, Tenn., 103 

 Ashes in mouuil at Ohltown, Tenn., 8li 



in mound on north bank of Holston, Tenn., 4 

 of Mexican Kings deposited, in Chapoltepec, accord- 

 ing to Soils, 27 

 paintings, caves, mouuds, and charcoal, connection 



between, 4 

 strata of, on river bank near mounds on Cumber- 

 land River, Tenu., 49 

 under stone piles near Stone Fort near Manchester, 



Tenn., S.'i, 103 

 within sacrificial vase or altar from centre of mound 

 opposite Nashville, Tenu., 42 

 Assinniboins, smallpox ravages among, 97 

 Astruc, John, reference m.ade to, 70 

 Alacapos — inhabited coast at the mouth of Mississippi — 



antiquity of, 122 

 Ataruipe, Humboldt on cavern and mummies of, 31, 32 

 Ataxique, fever in the tropics, 90 

 .\tures, burial customs of the, 33 



Atwater, Caleb, quotes Mr. Clifford respecting the cover- 

 ings of mummies, 5 

 on image from tumulus, near Nashville, Tenn., 52 

 reference made to, in Archseol. Americana, 140 

 Axes from Oldtown, Tenn., 87 



battle, from Tennessee, 4(5, 140, 142, fig. 11 

 copper, fouml iu Peruvian graves, 30 

 Aztec sculpture, image found in mound opposite Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., resembles, 44 

 Aztecs took possession of Anahuac, 120, 132 



Bancroft, Dr. Edward N., Ess.ay on Yellow Fever by, 93 



liaraguan. Straits of. caverns in, 31 



Rarbadoes, Dr. Henry Warren on introduction of yellow 



fever in, 9.3 

 Bartram describes height of graves, 9 

 on burial customs of Chactaws, 17 

 on head-flatte:;ing among the Chactaws, 122 

 Baskets in which human remains in cave at Warren 



County, Tennessee, had been interred, 2, 3 

 Bastions, semi-circular, of the ditch on north bank of the 



Holston, Tenn., 4 

 Reads, bone, from Tennessee, 137 



inclosed in coffin in saltpetre cave, Warren Co., 



Ky., 5 

 used as ornaments of bodies in mound opposite 

 Nashville, Tenn., 42, 43, 45, fig. 6 

 Beckett, William, respecting syphilis, 1)8 

 Bellknap's Life of Gorges, reference made to, 91 

 Riddle. Charles, brought mummy of Muysca Indian to 



National Academy of Science at Philadelphia, 32 

 Big Harpeth River, Tenn., ancient works on, 79-99 

 celt from, 142 

 chain of fortified ancient towns on, 36 



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