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Floiiila, burial customs of, at timn of .lolin Ortiz, 13 

 reference maiie to Roman's History of, '.i'A 

 temple in. found by Narvaez, iu wliicli were ciiests 

 containing a body each, 14 

 Floyd's Lick, Jaolison Co., Teuu., ancient fortification, 



mounds, and graves at, 12 

 Foramen magnum, observations on, IKJ 

 Forest williiu embankment ou West Ilarpeth River, 



Tenii., 79 

 Forked-deer River, Tenn., remains on, 1(4 

 Fort, stone, near Manchester, Tenn., 37 

 Fortilication along Big Harpelli River, Tenn., below 

 Oldtown, 'I'enn., at Mound Bottom, Tenn., and ou 

 Osboru's Place, Tenn., iiU 

 ancient, mounds, and graves at Floyd's Lick, Jack- 

 sou Co., Tenn., 12 

 ancient, near Franklin, Tenn., 8 

 in Coffee Co., Teuu., 100 



mounds, and earthworks in Tennessee, SG-iJo 

 mouuiis in neighborhood of, wliicli mark the sites 



of ancient towns, 3(j 

 of Mandau towns, 38, 33 

 recorded by De Soto, 105 

 Foster, Mr., reference made to his obs. during voyage 

 around tlie world, 33 

 respecting syphilis, liS 

 Fracture iu skull found iu limestone cavern in Ken- 

 tucky, 5 

 France, burial practised by ancient inhabitants of. 34 

 Franklin Pike, near Nashville, Tenn., pyramidal mouuds 



near, 52 

 Franklin, Tenn., ancient fortifications near, 3(i 

 copper mask found in mound near, 45 

 cranium from stone grave near. 111 

 stone graves and earthwork on plantation of Gen. 

 de Graffenreid, near, 8, 5lj 

 Freeman, Dr., removed cranium from stone grave at 



Oldtown, Tenn., 85 

 Freuch Broad River, Tenn., mounds on bank of, 3i) 



mounds five miles above mouth of 



the, 4 

 remains on, 104 

 French Lick Creek, Teuu., mound near, 51 

 Funeral of Mexican king, ceremonies at the, 27 



rites and sepulchres of the Mexicans, description of, 

 by Clavigero, 25 



G.\LE, Col. W. D., copper ornaments found in grave at 

 residence of, 45 

 graves opened ou farm of, 3 miles from Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., 8 

 image from grave near residence of, 41 

 Galinazo, looking-glasses of, found in Peruvian tombs, 



30 

 Garcilasso describes corpses of the lucas, 2!) 

 on construction of Peruvian tombs, 30 

 on royal mummies found at Cuzco, 20 

 Gardenhire, Dr. K. L., on mounds in Cherry Creek 

 Valley and Indian graves near Sparta, White Couuty, 

 Tenn., 12 

 Gateway of Stone Fort near Manchester, Tenn., 37 

 Gerdenio, Bernardus de, respecting syphilis, 119 

 Gili, Missionary, describes burial customs, 32 

 Girdle of silver around waist of female body from cave 



near Carthage, Teun., 4 

 Glass. Sf! Eastand. 



Goat Island, Niagara Falls, excavations at, 34 

 Gold found in graves of Mexicans, 28 

 Golgothas of the Maudaus, 24 

 Gomara mentions crosses in Yucatan, 78 



on Mexican burial customs, 25 

 Gookin, Historical Collections, references made to, 91 



on pestilence among Indians, 91 

 Graffenreid, Gen. de. See Franklin. 

 Grant, Dr. J. T., explored cave near Pulaski, Tenn., 



108 

 Graves at Floyd's Lick, Jackson Co., Tenn., 12 



along baiik of Cumberland River, Tenn., 48, 49 



Graves around octagonal grave in earthwork near Frank- 

 lin, Tenu., 5!), tip 

 near Brentwood, Tenn., 41 



ou hill upon which Col. Overton's residence iu Ten- 

 nessee, 39 

 small, square, iu Tennessee, 9, 13 

 stone, at Sycamore, Cheatham Co., Tenn., 55 

 in burial mouuds, 37 

 in mound near Brentwood, Tenn., 37 

 iu Tennessee, 8 

 iu vicinity of mound ou Franklin Pike, near 



Nashville, Tenn., 52 

 with human remains found iu Tennessee, 1 

 within work at Oldtown, Tenn., 82 

 Graveyard, ancient, ou White Creek Road, Tenn., 53 

 Graveyards, extensive, iu Kentucky and Teunessee, 7 

 Greeks buried their dead in boxes, 34 

 Grenada, buiial customs of Indians of New, 33 

 Guaca de Toledo visited by Humboldt, 31 

 Guaqueros. .See Chica. 

 (iuaxaca, deaths from smallpox in, 95 

 Guiana, customs of some hordes iu, 31 



H,T3MATEMESES iu the tropics, 90 



Hair of body from limestone cavern in Kentucky, 5 



of mummies from cave in Warren County, Tenn., 2 

 Hammers from Oldtown., Tenn., 87 



Hartsfield, Solomon, image found in Henry Co., Tenn., 

 on land of, KIO 

 ploughed up image near Paris, Tenn., 131 

 Hatchet, stone, found around mounds ou Cumberland 

 River, Tenn., 49 

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

 from ancient work near Franklin, Tenn., 75 fig. 38 

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

 from grave at Nashville. Tenn., 7 

 from Oldtown, Tenn., S7 



iron, fiom mouud on Franklin Pike, near Nashville, 

 Tenn., 52 

 Hatchy River, Tenn., remains on, 104 

 Havana, vomito in, i)4 

 Haysborough, Tenn.. graveyard at, 8 

 Haywood, account of ancient pigmies, 10, 13 



describes fortification near Manchester, Tenn., 100 

 on images from Sumner and Roanoke Counties, 



Tenn.", 133 

 relates finding human bones in caves, 1, 3, 4, 5, 10 

 respecting mound in Nashville, Teuu., 51 

 History of Shawnees, 154 

 on the liugam of India, 134 

 on rock painting, 138 



reference made to. Aboriginal History of Tennessee, 

 35, 77, 140, 142 

 Hazard's Collections, reference made to, 91 

 Hazolteotl, dress of an executed Mexican adulterer, 25 

 Head-dresses of images of Tennessee stone-grave race 



resemble those of Chinese and -Mexicans, 72 

 Ilead-fiattening. See Compression. 

 Heads of pottery from Tennessee, G3, figs. 31, 32 

 Herrera mentions ancient monuments near Zenu, in 

 Venezuela, 33 

 ou altering of skull by ancient inhabitants of His- 



paniola, Cuba, .lamaica, and Porto Rico, 122 

 on burial customs of Mountain Indians, 33 

 Hiawassee River, Tenn., mounds on banks of, 3t) 



ancient town site above mouth of, 131 

 Hickman. See Kentucky. 



Hieronymus Fracastorius, reference made to, 70 

 Hillary, Dr., on yellow fever in Barbadoes, 93, 94 

 Hippocrates mentioned macroccphali, 118 

 Hispaniola, customs of inhabitants of, 122 

 Hoe from Cumberland Valley, 140, fig. 79 

 Holston River, Tenn., mounds on north bank of the, 4 



near Strawberry Plains, Knox Co., Tenn., idol 

 found in cave on, 128 

 Hood, General, stone graves exposed during the war by, 52 

 Howard, Mr., Remains of aborigiual town ou laud of, 

 134 



