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Laudounidre, Admiral Renaud de, visited Florida, 143 i 

 accompauied by Jacob le Moyue in his 

 second voyage to Florida, 14 

 Las Casas ou gold found in Peruvian graves, 29 

 Lawson, John, New Voyage to Carolina, 2 



ou burial custom of the Santee Indians, 21. 22 

 on compressiou of cranium among the Wax- 

 haws, 122 

 on ravages of smallpox, 97 

 reference made to, 70 

 Le Bossu, reference made to his Travels in Louisiana, 33 

 Le Moyue, Jacob, describes burial customs, 14 

 Le Moyne made drawings of implements of Florida In- 

 dians, 143 

 Lenapes, burial customs of the, 34 

 Le Petit, Father, acoouut of rites performed by the 



Natchez, 19, 20 

 Lewis's and Clarke's Expedition, reference made to, 34 

 Lexington. See Kentucky. 



Lick Brauch, Tenn., Indian graveyard along the valley 

 of, 7 

 pure silver obtained from stone grave near, 

 45 

 Limestone cavern in Kentiicky, body found in, 4 

 Lingam of India, Haywood on the, 134 

 Little Tennessee River, mounds on banks of, 30 

 Livingston, Overton Co., Tenn., deposit of human bones 



near, 12 

 Llorente, reference made to works edited by, 29 

 Looking-glasses of the Inca-stoue and of galiuazo found 



in Peruvian tombs, 30 

 Losisiana, reference made to Le Bossu's Travels in, 33 



McCoLLOuon deposited phallus from Chillicothe in Mu- 

 seum of Philosophical Society, 135 

 McGavoe, Mr., cemetery near Nashville, Tenn., 11 



mound standing on property of, in Nashville, Tenn., 

 51 

 McLaughlin, Dr., on mortality among Indians, 98 

 McMinnviUe, Tenn., cave containing human bones found 



near, 2 

 Macrocephali mentioned by Hippocrates, 118 

 McWhorter, S. H., ou image found in Henry Co., Tenn., 



130 

 Madoc, Prince, supposed to have settled in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley, 38 

 Magee, John H., certifies as to inclosure near Paris, 



Tenn., 131 

 Magnolia, reference made to, 91 

 Maine explored by Champlain, 107 

 Malarial fevers destroyed American aborigines, 89 

 Malay crania, measurements of, 47 



skulls, internal capacity of, 114 

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



llunta, corpse of, seen by Garcilasso, 29 

 Mammoth Cave. See Kentucky. 

 Man painted on limestone bluif forming south bank of 



the Holston, Tenn., 4 

 Mankind, origin and identity of the races of, 119 

 Manchester, Tenn., ancient work near, 37 

 fortification near, 100 

 stone heaps near, 55 

 Mandan towns, fortifications of, 38, 39 

 Mandans are said to have derived their knowledge of 

 fortifications from the Welsh, 38 

 burial customs of, 23, 24, 34 

 fortifications on Muskingum and Ohio Rivers 



ascribed by Catlin to the, 38 

 preserved arts and customs of mound builders of 



Mississippi Valley, 39 

 smallpox ravages among, 97 

 wigwams of, 38 

 Mantles of feathers worn by difTe'ent races, 2— i 

 Maps of ancient Ainerica, 151 

 Marble cross, Peruvians are said to have had a white, 



77 

 Marquette, Father, on discoveries and explorations in 

 America, 148 



Marquette, F.ather, on rock paintings in Missouri and 



Illinois, 138 

 Martinico, Brazil, yellow fever at, 93 

 Martius and Spix, travels in Brazil, 33 

 Mask of copper found in mound near Franklin, Tenn., 

 45 

 put on idols Iluitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca in 

 case of Mexican king's sickness, 25 

 Massachusetts, reduction of Indians of, from pestilence, 



91 

 Matlier, Lieut., attitude of skeletons from monnds in 



Wisconsin, 34 

 Matlazahuatl destroyed American aborigines, 89 

 Mats of bark and feathers enshroud the dead, 2-4 

 Maury's Co., Tenn., Parish's Mound in, 107 

 Mayer, Brantz, reference made to Mexico by, 28 

 M.aylield Station, Tenn., image from mound at, 133 

 Medal found in mound on French Lick Creek, near 



Nashville, Tenn., 52 

 Medicine among Indians of North America, Dr. Rush, 

 Inquiry into the Natural History of, U7 

 pole in use by Mandans, 24 

 Meigs, Dr. J. Aitken, measurements of skulls hy, 114 

 Memotombita, idols discovered by Mr. Squier at, 13G 

 Meridia, cross in, 78 



Metal fonnil in mound on French Lick Creek, near Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., 52 

 Mexican and Nootka Columbian languaees, resemblance 

 of, 125 

 burial customs, 28, 33 

 dead received pieces of paper representing passports 



against dangers in their final jonrney, 25, 2(; 

 kings, ashes of, deposited in Chapoltepec, according 



to Soils, 27 



sculpture, image found in mound opposite Nashville, 



Tenn., resembles, 44 



Mexicans and Chinese, ornaments and head-dresses of 



Tennessee stone-grave race resemble tliose of, 72 



Clavigero's description of the funeral rites and 



sepulchres of the, 25 

 peculiarities of skulls of. 119 

 Peruvians, and Jlongol Tartars, similarity of bursal 



customs of, 31 

 Peruvians, and Natchez, resemblance of burial cus- 

 toms of the, 19 

 reverenced stones cut in form of cross, according to 



the Spaniards, 77 

 vase found in mound opposite Nashville, Tenn., re- 

 sembles those of, 4<i 

 wore feather mantles at time of Spanish conquest, 2 

 Mexico abandoned by Toltecs from pestilence, 89 

 Clavigero's History of, 25 

 deaths from smallpox in, 95, 96 

 referencejnade to, by Brantz Mayer, 28 

 reference'niade to Clavigero's History of, 27, 28, 33 

 smallpox in, 94 



stone idol from pyramid at Cholula, near, 132 

 Mica, fragments of, from ancient work near Franklin, 



Tenn., 75 

 Michoaeau, deaths from smallpox in, 95 

 Milicken, Amos, image found in Henry Co., Tenn., on 



land of, 1311 

 Minetarees, fortification of towns of, 39 



smallpox ravages among, 97 

 Mississippi River, maps of the, 149 



Mississippi, stone vessel from mound on Tallahatchie 

 River, Fayette Co., 144 

 Valley, reference maile to .John Gilinary Shea's, 138 

 densely populated in ancieut times, 1 

 remains of the, are referred to various aborigi- 

 nal nations, 39 

 Missouri, Mr. Nuttal ou the burial customs of the Osages 

 of, 33 

 rock paintings in, 138 

 small stone graves near St. Louis, 10 

 Valley, smallpox ravages in, 97 

 Mitchell, Dr., on the Six Nations, 154 

 Miztecs, burial customs of the, 28 

 Miztica Baxa, cross drawn from cave of, 78 



