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INDEX. 



Moluclies, burial customs of the, 33 



Mongol Tartars, Peruvians, and Mexicans, similarity of 



burial customs of, 31 

 Mongolian crania, measurements of, 47, 114 

 Monro, Alexamler, reference made to observations on 



the different kinds of smallpox by, 95 

 Montezuma's successor died of smallpox, 94, 95 

 Moon pyramid of Teotiliuacan, Mexico. 28 



painted on limestone bluff forming south bank of 



the Holston, Tenn., 4 

 venerated by aborigines, 1()(> 

 Morgan, Lewis H., on burial customs among the Iroquois, 



15 

 Mortality among Indians, 98, 99 

 Mortar from ancient woik near Franklin, Tenn., 74 



from stone grave in valley of Cumberland River, 

 Tenn., 51 

 Motolinia (Father Torribrio) on smallpox in Mexico, 90 

 Morton, Di*., examined bodies of Peruvians, 33 



gives evidence of the unity of race and species 



in the American savage nations, 32 

 gives measurements of crania in his Crania 



Americana, 32, 47, 112, 113 

 observations on burial customs, 32, 33, 34 

 Mound-builders of Tennessee, compressed the skull, 119, 

 121 

 connection of, with distant southern na- 

 tions, 84 

 Mound, at Mayfield Station, Tenn., image from, 133 

 Bottom, Tenn., rock paintings in, 138 

 celt from, 142 



combination of works at. 3S 

 burial, on Mr. Dixon's farm ou White Creek Road, 



Tenn., .05 

 burial or sacrificial, near inclosure ou West Ilarpeth 



River, Tenn., SO 

 in Cherry Creek Valley, near Sparta, Tenn., Dr. E. 



L. Gardenhire on, 12 

 inclosed by embankment on bank of West llarpetU 



River, Tenn., 79 

 in earthwork near Franklin, Tenn., 57 

 near Clifton, Perry County, Tenn., ima^e from, 131 

 near Hickman, Kentucky, Jiipe from, 138 

 Parish's, iu Maury Co., Tenu., 107 

 pyramidal, near Franklin, Tenn., 73 



in ancient work near Franklin, Tenn., 8 

 on Franklin Pike, near iS'ashville, Tenn., 52 

 Mounds, ancient, near Lake Erie, skeletons of small 

 people Ibund in, 10 

 apparent roy.al burial, contain but a few small 



graves, 9 

 at Floyd's Lick, Jacksou Co., Tenn., 12 

 at Sycamore, Tenn., 55 



chain of four, surrounded by a burying-gronnd, op- 

 posite Nasliville, on bank of Cumberland River, 7 

 charcoal, ashes, paintings, and caves, connection 



between, 4 

 connected with earthwork near Franklin, Tenn., 56 

 containing stone images, 4 

 dimensions of, 57 

 five miles above month of the French Broad, Tenn., 



on liolstou River, 4 

 found in same location with caves containing human 



remains, 1 

 fortifications, and earthworl;s in Tennessee, 36-55 

 hollow, on Cherry Creek, White Co., Tenn., 134 

 of work at Oldtown, Tenn., S2 

 of work in Henry Co., Tenn., 130 

 sacrificial and burial, in Tennessee, 41-55 

 small, conical, in ancient work near Franklin, Tenu., 



8 

 stone-grave burial, 37 



stone, of stone fort near Manchester, Tenu., 101 

 surrounded by earthworks, 36 

 within wall near Paris, Tenn., 131 

 within wall opposite entrance of cemetery near 

 Carthage, Tenn., 3 

 Mountaiu Indians, Henera on burial customs of, 33 



Mobilia, numerous population in, 105 



Mummies and cavern of Ataruipe, Humboldt on, 31, 32 



coverings of, Caleb Atwater quotes Mr. Clilfoid re- 

 specting the, 5 



exhumed by Dr. Ruscheuberger near Arica, 33 



from cave iu Warren Co., Tenn., 2 



in caskets, discovery in the United States of, 32 



royal, found at Cuzco, 29 

 Mummy of a Muysca Indian of New Grenada, 32 

 Murfreesboro', Tenn., pipe from, 75, 138 

 Murphy, Dr. Thomas, introduced vaccine inoculation, 96 

 Muscogee, burial customs of the, 33 

 Muscogulges, burial customs of the, 17 

 Muskohtrees, ravages of smallpox among, 97 

 Musiokees, burial custon'^s of the, 16 

 Muskingum River, fortificatious along the, ascribed by 



Catlin to the Mandans, 38 

 Muysca Indian of New Grenada, mummy of a, 32 



Nahaxts, burial customs of the, 34 



Name of the ancient race, in(juiry into the, 147 



Nance, E. W., plan of stone fort near Manchester, Tenn., 



10(1, 103 

 Narvaez, Pamphilo de, attempted to conquer Florida, 105 

 found a temple in Florida in which were chests 



containing a body each, 14 

 John Ortiz came to FTorida with, 13 

 Nashville, Tenn., built over Indian graveyard, 7 



collection of aboriginal remains in State capitol 



at, 139 

 cranium from burial mound opposite. 111 

 idol found ne.ir, 133 

 Natchez are said to have reigned over the entire country 

 in wliich mounds are being found — their extent 

 and power, 125 

 burial customs of the, 19, 107 



crania from mound opposite Nashville, Tenn., re- 

 semble that of the, 48 

 flattening of cranium among, 121 

 method employed by, in process of flattening the 



head, 124 

 Peruvians, and Mexicans, resemblance of burial 



customs of the, 19 

 ravages of smallpox among the, 97 

 resemblance of crania of, to aborigines of Tennessee, 



to Toltecs, and to Peruvians, 12(i, 121 

 rites performed by the. Father le Petit's account of 

 the, 19, 20 

 Nanmkeags, Salem, Mass. is the site of the old village 



of the, 34 

 Needle of polished bone from grave of child iu earth- 

 work near L'ranklin, Tenn., 61 

 New England tribes, burial customs of the, 34 



pests among the, 90, 91 

 New Grenada, burial customs of Indians of, 33 



mummy of a Muysca Indian of, 32 

 New Jersey, reference made to Smith's History of, 34 

 New Spain, A. von Humboldt's political essay on kingdom 



of, reference made to, 28 

 Niagara Falls, excavations at Goat Island, 34 

 Nicaragua, Mr. Squier noticed crosses in, 78 



reference made to Squier's, 136 

 Nitre obtained from caves in Tennessee during revolu- 

 tionary war, 1 

 Nootka Columbian language resembles the Mexican, 125 



idioms of, 124 

 North Carolina, John Lawsou's account of the burial 

 customs of Indians of, 22, 23 

 visited by John Verrazzani, 104 

 Nuttall locates place called Quigalta, 121 



ou burial customs of the Osages of Missouri, 33 



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Deed's River, Tenn., remains on, 104 



Oblong mound iu front of gateway of stone fort near 



Manchester, Tenn., 37 

 Obsidian, fragments of, from ancient work near Franklin, 



Tenu., 76 



