INDEX. 



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Charlottesville, Tenn., Dr. Brown found images near 



moimd below, 13? 

 Cherokees, ami Cliiekasaws drove Shawuees from Cum- 

 berland, 51 

 are said to have painted figures on limestone bluff, 



forming south bank of the Holston, Teun., 4 

 burial customs of the, 17, 18, 19 

 ravages of smallpox among, 97 



stockaded mound on French Lick Creek near Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., 52 

 Cherry Creek Valley, Tenn., Dr. E. L. Gardenhire on 

 mound in, I'J 

 remains of aboriginal town iu, 133, 134 

 Clieyennes, smallpox among the, 98 

 Chica, guaqueros for drinking, found iu Peruvian tombs, 



31 

 Chichimecs, sepulchres of the ancient, 28 

 Chickasa, numerous population in, 105 

 Chickasaws and Cherokees drove Shawnees from Cum- 

 berland, 51 

 Capt. Bernard Romans on the burial customs of the, 



10 

 ravages of smallpox among, 97 

 Child's grave in earthwork near Franklin, Tenn., 00, 72 

 Chili, Inilians of, burial customs of the, 33 

 Chillicothe, Ohio, cross found in mound at, 77 



phallus or priapus from, 135 

 Chimu, ruins of city of, visited by Humboldt, 31 

 Chinese and Mexicans, ornaments and head-dresses of 

 Tennessee stone-grave race resemble those of, 72 

 Tae-heih, 137 



Tartary, burial customs in, 118 

 Chinooks, ilattening of cranium among, 121 



method employed by, in flattening the head, 123, 

 fig. 64 

 Chippeways, burial customs of the, 34 

 Chisel, flint, from mound iu North Nashville, Tenn., 50, 

 fig. 50 

 from earthworks on Big Harpeth River, 75, figs. 39, 



40 

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

 from Oldtown, Tenn., 87 

 stone, iu grave near Franklin, Tenn., 01 

 Choctaws. See Chactaw. 

 Chokta. Sre Chactaw, 17, 18, 19 

 Cholula, pyramids of, 28, 120, 132 



stone idol fi'om pyramid at, 132 

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



Tenu., 12 

 Chuuke, a Chactaw game, 141 

 Cieca on compression of skull, 119 

 Cinders found iu mound on French Lick Creek, near 



Nashville, Tenn., 51, 52 

 Cists. See Stone Cofiins, 7 



Clarkesville, Tenn., inia};e from mound near, 133 

 Clavigero, account of funeral rites and sepulchres of the 

 Mexicans, 25 

 reference made to History of Mexico, 25, 33 

 respecting syphilis, OS 

 statistics of deaths from smallpox, 94, 95 

 Clifford, Mr., of Lexington, Ky., image from tumulus near 

 Nashville, Teun., iu museum of, 

 52 

 quoted by Caleb Atwater respect- 

 ing the coverings of mummies, 5 

 Clifton, Perry Co., Tenn., image from mound near, 131 

 Clothing of the deceased Mexicans, 25 

 Cockrill's Spring, near Nashville, Tenn., Indian burying- 



ground at, 8 

 Cofiins, stone, from mounds near Franklin, Tenn., 57 



in saltpetre cave in Warren County, Kentucky, 5 

 used by ancient race of Tennessee, 7 

 sounding for the, in stone graves in Tennessee, 9 

 use of, a distinction of aucieut race iu Tennessee, 



34 

 wooden, in mound at Stone Fort, near Manchester, 

 Tenn., 102 

 Coins from Tennessee, 140 



Colchis, near Pontus, customs of inhabitants of, 10 

 21 Seitomber, 1876. 



Collins River, Tenn., remains on, 104 



Color of skin of body found iu limestone cavern in 



Kentucky, 5 

 Combahee River, Soirth Carolina, 104 

 Compression, artificial, of crania from mound opposite 

 Nashville, Tenn., 4S, 49, 54 

 of cranium, custom of, 119, 121, 123 

 Cone of haematite from Cumberland Valley, Tenn., 141, 



fig. 81 

 Coosa, numerous population in, 105 

 Copper axes found in Peruvian graves, 30 



crosses found in graves in Tennessee, 35, 137 



or plates iu grave near Franklin, Tenn., 59 

 mask found in mound near Franklin, Tenn., 45 

 ornaments found iu mounds iu Teuuessee, 45, 136, 

 fig. 10 

 from graveyard on farm of Col. W. D. Gale, 

 near Nashville, Tenn., 8 

 Copperas Cave, West Tennessee, bones found in, 1 

 Cordilleres, Vues des, reference made to, 29 

 Cordova, Gonzales Fernandez de, soldiers of, spread 



syphilis, 08 

 Coroados of Brazil, burial customs of the, 33 

 Cortez describes burial customs of Mexicans, 28 

 Cowpox in Valladolid and in Alesco, near La Puebla, 96 

 Coya Mama Oello, corpse of, seen by Garcilasso, 29 

 Craigliead, Mr., image found near residence of, 133 

 Crania Americana, Dr. Morton's, 32, 33, 47 



effects of pressure upon, at difl'erent ages, 48, 49, 



54 

 found by Mr. Lane, doubtless belonged to children, 

 11 

 in small graves prove to be those of children, 

 9, 13 

 from graves on Mr. Dixon's farm on White Creek 



Road, Tenn., 54 

 from mound near Brentwood, Tenn., peculiarities 



of, 38 

 from outer circle of coffins in mound opposite Nash- 

 ville, Tenu., 40, 47, figs. 13, 14 

 fi-om stone graves at Oldtown, Teun., 84, 85, SG 

 from tumuli at Kertsch in the Crimea, Dr. Rathke 



on, 118 

 measurements of, from stone graves and mounds of 



Tennessee, 110 

 of Kentucky and Tennessee stone-grave race re- 

 semble those of luca Peruvians and Toltecs of 

 Mexico, 72 

 of skeletons from mound opposite Nashville, Tenn., 



44 

 resemblance of, of aborigines of Tennessee, to those 

 of the Natchez, Toltecs, and Peruviaus, 120, 121 

 remarks on and comparison of, 140 

 Craniograph, description of, 112, fig. 03 

 Creeks, burial customs of the, 10, 33 

 Crimea, Dr. Rathke on crania from tumuli at Kertsch iu 



the, 118 

 Cross carved in shell ornament from stone grave near 

 Nashville, Tenn., 77 

 in mounds at Chillicothe, Ohio, 77 

 stones forming, reverenced by Mexicans at time of 



Spanish conquest, 77 

 in temples of Anahuac, 78 

 use of, among nations of remote antiquity, 77 

 Crosses found iu mounds and graves, 77 



of copper from grave iu earthwork near Franklin, 

 Tenn., 59, 137, fig. 35 

 in graves in Tennessee, 35 

 Crows, smallpox ravages among, 97 

 Cuba, customs of ancient inhabitants of, 122 

 Ciiitlahuac died of smallpox, 94, 95 

 Cumberland River, above Nasliville, remains along, 104 

 cave, 22 miles above Cairo, on, 3 

 flagon iu open temple on Cauey B'ork of, 134 

 graves along bank of, 48, 49 

 mounds on banks of, 30 



stone idols found iu the valley of the, 129, 133 

 Valley, celts from, 142 



cranium from mound in, 110, 111 



