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INDEX. 



Big Harpetli River, Tenu., combination of works along, 

 3(j 

 craninm from burial mound en, 111 

 earth worI<s on, 5t!-78, fig. 23 

 extensive collection of stone graves on, 8 

 rock-painting on, 138 

 Big Tennessee River, mounds on banks of, 3G 

 Bimeda, Luis De, recorded the history of John Ortiz, 13 

 Birds, bones of, in graves, 49 



painted on limnstoue bluff forming south bank of 

 the llolston, Tenn., 4 

 Black Bird, grave of, Chief of the 0-ma-h.aws, on the 



Upper Missouri River, 25 

 Blackfeet, smallpox ravages among the, 97 

 Bledsoe's Lick, Tenn., remains at, 1('4 

 Boiling Springs, Tenn., stone graves at the, 8 



idol from stone grave at, 132 

 Bone beads from Tennessee, 137 



Bones, charred , found under stone heaps near Manchester, 

 Tenu., f>5 

 deposit of human, near residence of Major John F. 



.Jewett, near Livingston, Tenn., 12 

 found by Dr. Zach. R. Chowning, near Livingston, 



Tenn., 12 

 found in cave on Duck River, Tenn., 102 

 from mound in a work in Henry County, Tenn., 131 

 from Rock Mound near Pulaski, Tenn., 109 

 liuman, found in caves in Tennessee, 1 

 human, in stone graves at Sycamore, Tenn., !>T) 

 in mound on French Lick Creek, near Nashville, 



Tenu., 51 

 of birds .and animals found in graves of children, 



opposite Nashville, Tenn., 49 

 of child in grave near Franklin, Tenu., 72 

 Brazil, Coroados of, buiial customs of the, 33 

 Inhabited by Carihs, 122 

 smallpox in, 9(i 



Spix and Martin's travels in, 33 

 yellow fever in, 93 

 Brentwood, Tenn., small mound near, 37 



stone graves in and around, 8 

 Brown, Dr., found stone images iiear mound below 

 Charlottesville, Tenn., 133 

 Thomas, at OUltowu, Tenn., ancient works and stone 

 graves on place of, 8, 82 

 BuQ'alo Gap, Tenn., rock-painting at, 138 

 Burial caves in Tennessee, l-U, Chapter I. 



customs of southern Indians at time of De Soto's 



invasion, 13 

 ground near fortification near Carthage, Tenn., 3 

 opposite Nashville, Tenu., on bank of Cumber- 

 land River, 7, 8 

 iu box or coffin, origin of, 34 

 manner of, by the ancient race in Tenn., 8 

 mode of, in cave on Smith's Fork, Tenn., 3 

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



Chapter IL 

 mounds, apparent royal, contain but a few small 

 graves, 9 

 near Brentwood, Tenn., 41 



near iuclosure ou West HarpetU River, Tenn. 

 80 y , , 



on Cumberland River, 41 

 stone grave, 37 

 remarks ou metliods of, 146 



Caciqdes of Quito were buried in the principal temple, 



Cafeqne, Georgia, supplied servants to De Soto, lO,") 



Cairo, cave 22 miles above, ou Cumberland River, 3 



California, smallpox among Indians of, 9G 



Canadian Imlians, burial customs of the, 34 



Caney Fork River, Tenn., remains on, 104 



Canteen, Indian, from Mr. Dixon's farm on White Creek 



Road, Tenn., 54 

 Capac, Huayna, corpse of, seen by Garcilasso, 29 

 Caribs, burial costumes of the, 33 



flattening of skull amcmg the, 121 



Caribs, reference to Sir W. Young's account of the, 33 



Caribbees, see Caribs, 121, 122 



Carter, Dr., visited rock paintings iu Mound Bottom, 



Tenn., 138 

 Carter's Creek, mound ou junction of Rutherford's and, 



107 

 Carthage, Tenn., cave near Cumberland River, 12 miles 



below, 3 

 Cartliagena, vomito in, 94 



Castalian Springs, Tenn., aboriginal remains at, 104 

 Catlin, account of burial customs of Mandans, 23, 24 

 ascribi s fortifications on Muskingum and Ohio 



Rivers to the Mandans, 38 

 describes grave of Black-Bird, Chief of the 0-ma- 



haws, on Upper Missouri River, 25 

 gives drawings of heads of Osages, 124 

 on ilestruction of Indians by smallpox, 97, 98 

 on wigwams of Mandans, 38 

 Cattaraugus, Senecas resided at, 15 

 Caucasian crania, measurements of, 47 



skulls, internal capacity of, 114 

 Cave near Pulaski, Giles Co., Tenn., on plantation of Mr. 

 Willi.am Sbeppard, 3, lUS 

 of Miztica Baxa, cross from, 78 

 ou Duck River. Tenn., 102 

 on Holston River near Strawberry Plains, in Knox 



Co., Tenn., idol from, 128 

 on south bank of Holatou, Tenn., opposite the 



mounds, 4 

 twelve miles below Carthage, Tenn., near Cumber- 

 land River, 3 

 Caves and mummies of Ataruipe, Humboldt ou, 31, 32 

 burial, in Tennessee, l-(i 



mounds, charcoal, ashes, and paintings, connection 

 between, 4 

 Cayambe, plains near, covered with tombs, 30 

 Celt, chipped, fjom stone grave in Cumberland Valley, 

 Tenn., 139, fig. IU 

 from Cumberland Valley, Tenn., 142, figs. 82, 83 

 fiom Middle Tennessee, 142 

 fioin mound in Nashville, Tenn., 51, fig. 20 

 from Oldtown, 87, fig. 55 

 of jasper from bed of Seine at Paris, 58 

 purpose of Europeaii stone, 58 

 stone, from bed of Thames at London, 58 

 Cemetery at Mr. Macgavoc's, near Nashville, Tenn., 11 

 Cempoala, smallpox in, 94 

 Central America, shores of, inhabited by the Caribs, 122 



smallpox in, 9lj 

 Ceremonies at burial of a Mexican king, 27 



at death of female cbief of Natchez, Father Charle- 

 voix's account of the, 20, 21 

 religious, of aborigines, at De Soto's time, IOC 

 Chactaws, burial customs of the, lli, 17, 18, 19 

 have a game called Chunke, 141 

 head-flattening among the, 122 

 ravages of smallpox among, 97 

 Champlain's explorations of Maine, 107 

 Chapoltepec, ashes of Mexican kings, according to Soils, 



deposited in, 27 

 Charaibes. See Caribbees, 122 



Charcoal and ashes in stone graves at Sycamore, Tenn., 

 55 

 ashes, paintiugs, caves, and mounds, connection 



between, 4 

 at Oldtown, Tenn., 86 



found in mound on French Lick Creek, near Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., 51, 52 

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

 in mound on West Harpeth River, Tenn., 80 

 strata of, on river bank near mounds on Cumber- 

 land River, Tenn., 49 

 under stone piles, near Stone Fort, near Manchester, 

 Tenu., 103 

 Charlevoix, Father, account of ceremonies at death of 

 female chief of Natchez, 20, 21 

 on burial customs of the Canadian Indians, 34 

 Charlotte Turnpike, near Nashville, Tenu., graveyard 

 near, 8 



