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INDEX. 



Cuuibci-laiid Valley, pipes found in, 75 

 Cup, diiuking, I'lom giiive uear Brentwood, Tenn., 41, 

 lig. 3 

 from stone grave in valley of Cumberland River, 

 Tenn., 51 

 Cu.shman, Elder, on pestilence among Indians, 9] 

 Cutifacliiqui, gentleman of Klvas on depopulation of, 90, 

 91 

 pearls found by Spaniards in grave in province of, 14 

 Cuzco, royal mummies fouud at, 29 



Dadbenton on the foramen magnum, IH^, 117 

 Davis, Francis, reference made to Cliina, 137 



Squier and, mention stoue work near Manchester, 

 Tenn., 100 

 Dead, mounds for burning the, 36 

 Death of a Mexican king, ceremonies at the, 27 

 De Azara, reference made to Voyage dans I'Amerique, 



33 

 De Atyllon visited South Carolina, 104 

 Deities of aborigines, 10(j 

 Delawares, burial customs of the, 34 

 Dermes, Capt., reported plague along the Atlantic, 91 

 De Soto, expedition of, to Florida, lnO 



invasion of, burial customs of southern Indians at 



time of the, 13 

 noticed Indians in the south wear feather mantles, 2 

 recorded history of John Ortiz, 13 

 Destruction of nations, 99 

 of aboriginal remains, 82 

 of entire population of primitive inhabitants of 



Kentucky and Tennessee, 88 

 of the Adirondacks, 152 

 Dickinson's Turnpike, Tenn., stone graves on, 8 

 Disk, stone, from ancient work near Franklin, Tenn., 74, 

 75, fig. 37 

 from Valley of the Cumberland, 51, fig. 19; 143, 



fig. 81 

 of clay from stone grave, Nashville, 50, figs. 17, 18 

 Discoidal stoue from ancient work near Franklin, Tenn., 



74, fig. 3(J 

 Diseases among aborigines of America, 89-99 

 in Tropics, Hnmbuldt on, 94, 9(J 

 of West Indies, Sir Hans Sloane, M.D., on Natural 

 History of, 68 

 Ditch inclosing mounds on north bank of the Holh.ton, 

 Tenn., 4 

 of stone fort near Manchester, Tenn., 101 

 of work on West Harpeth River, Tenn., 80 

 Ditches probably inclosed conseciated giound, 4 



recorded by De Soto, 105 

 Dixon, Mr., crania from graves on farm of, 54 



stone graves near Nashville. Tenn., on faim of, 53 

 Dobrizholfur on burial customs of the I'atagoniau tribes, 



Dodinjeas, respecting syphilis, 68 



Doe-skin employed as shroud of human remains from 



cave in Warren County, Term., 2 

 Dog Creek, Tenn., aboriginal remains at mouth of, 104 

 Duck Riviu-, burying-grounds along, 8 

 fortification on, 100 

 mounds on banks of, 36 

 pipes found in, 75 

 Dunlap, H. E., on inclosure near Paris, Tenn., 131 



John W., certifies as to inclosure uear Paris, Tenn., 

 131 

 Dupaix on antiquity of Palenque ruins, 77 

 Du Pratz, information of the extent and power of the 

 Natchez, 125, 126, 127 

 on compression of skull among Natchez, 121 

 reference made to his History of Louisiana, 141 

 145 



Eaule, Mr., examined mounds in Nashville, Tenn., 51 

 Earthenware vessels from Tennessee, 144, 145 



deposited with ski-letons from burial-ground 

 uear Carthage, Tenn., 3 



Earthenware vessels in octagonal grave in mound of 



eaithwork near Franklin, Tenn., 59 

 Eartliworks, ancient, near llicknian. Tenn., 63 

 ancient, at Oldtowu, Tenn., 82, fig. 47 

 fortifications, and mounds iu Tennessee, 3G-55, 



Chapter HI. 

 on Big Harpeth River, Tenn., 56-78, Chapter IV., 



fig. 23 

 on plantation of Gen. de Graffenreid iu Teunessee, 



near Franklin, 8 

 on West Harpeth and Big Harpeth Rivers, Tenn., 



79-99, fig. 46 

 reujains of ancient, around mound near Brentwood, 



Tenn., 37 

 surrounding mounds, 36 



traces of ancient, on Mr. Dixon's farm, on White 

 Creek Road, Tenn., 54 

 Eastand, Capt., idonghed up flint glass within stone 



fort near Mancdiester, Tenn., 101 

 Edwards, Bryan, History of the West Indies, 34, 121 



on excessive sensuality of West Indian abori- 

 gines, 67 

 Egypt, cross was the symbol of matter in, 77 

 Egyptian vase, image found in mound opposite Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., resembles, 44 

 Egyptians consecrated the phallus. 136 



originated burial in box, or colfin, 34 

 Elk River, Tenn., Imrying-grounds along, 8 



mounds on banks of, 36 

 Elvas, gentleman of, on depopulation of town of Cutifa- 

 cliiqui, 90 

 recorded history of .John Oitiz, 13 

 Embalming of boily of Zapotec lords, 28 

 Embankment, circular, on West Haipeth River, Tenn., 

 79 

 on plantation of General M. F. de Graffenreid, near 

 Franklin, Tenn., 56 

 Emigration a cause of abandonment by primitive in- 

 habitants of Kentucky and Tennessee of aboriginal 

 remains, 88 

 England, burial practised by ancient inhabitants of, .34 

 Entrenchments reciu-ded by De Soto, 105 

 Erie, skeletons of small people found iu ancient mounds 



near, 10 

 Ethiopian crania, measurements of, 47 



skull, internal capacity of, 114 

 Ethnological Society, reference made to Trans, of Amer., 



12, 136 

 European stone celts, purpose of, 58 

 Evans, Lewis, on the Six Nations, 154 

 Excavation of ancient Indian pyramid of Cholula, 

 Mexico, 28, 29 

 within inclosure on West Harpeth River, Tenn., SO 



Falkneu's Patagonia, reference made to. 33 



Fan in hand of mummy from cave in Warreu County, 



Tenn., 2 

 Favette Co., Mississippi, stone vessel from mound on 



Tallahatchie River, 144 

 Feather m.antles, 2 

 Feathers inclosed iu coflin in a saltpetre cave, Warren 



Co., Ky., 5 

 Female chief of tlie Natchez, ceremonies at death of. 



Father Charlevoix's account of, 20, 21 

 Fire, traces of, iu mounds of earthwcuk near Franklin, 



Tenn., 57 

 Fishes painted on limestone blulT forming south bank 



of the Holston, Tenn., 4 

 Flagon from Caney Fork of Cumberland, Tenn., 134 

 Flathends of Columbia River compress their cranium, 



123 

 Fleshing instrument from stona grave within ancient 



work near Franklin, Tenn., 75 

 Flint chisel from mound in North Nashville, Tenn., 50 

 splinters of, in fields near mounds on Cumberland 

 River, Tenn., 49 

 Florida, Indians in, wore feather mantles at the time 



of De Soto's march through the south, 2 



