INDEX. 



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Scalping knife from valley of Cumberland River, Tenn., 



VM), ag. 75 

 Scliooicraft on smallpox ravages, 97 

 Scoseler, Dr., states that people practising compression 



of head are subject to apoplexy, ll!4 

 Scotland, burial practised by ancient inliabitants of, 34 

 Scouler, Dr., on idioms of JSootka Columbians. 124 

 Scythians, ancient, little accustomed to burn their dead, 



32 

 Sea shells, carved, from graves in earthwork near 



Franklin, Tenn., CO, til 

 Seneeas, burial customs among the — resided at Tona- 



wanda and Cattar.iugus, 15 

 Sensuality of West Indian aborigines, Bryan Edwards 



on excessive, 07 

 Sepulchres and funeral rites of Mexicans, Clavigero's 

 description of the, 25 

 near Teotihuacan, Mexico, 27 

 of ancient Chichimecs, 2S 

 Servaudo, Dr., on smallpox in America, 95 

 Sewees, ravages of smallpox among the, 97 

 Shawanese, ravages of smallpox among the, 97 

 Sbawnees driven from Cumberland by the Cberokees 

 and Chickasaws, 51 

 inhabited Kentucky and Tennessee, 147 

 Shea, John Gilmary, notes on Sbawnees, 149 



reference made to Mississippi Valley, 138 

 Sheldon, reference made to, in Archaeol. Amer., 33 

 Shell found in graves along bank of Cumberland River, 

 Tenu., 48 

 from Pulaski, Tenn., 109, fig. 62 

 ornament with cross carved in centre from stone 

 grave near Nashville, Tenn., 77 

 carved, of great beauty, found on skeleton in 



mound opposite Nashville, Tenn., 42, 43, 45 

 fi'oui Tennessee, 13ii 



shape of human countenance, from grave of 

 child at foot of mound opposite Nashville, 

 Tenn., 48, fig. 15 

 with cross cut on it found in grave in Sparta, 

 Tenn., 77 

 Sliells in fields around mounds on Cumberland River, 

 Tenn., 49 

 sea, in graves in earthwork near Franklin, Tenn , 59, 



60, flg. 29 

 used as ornaments of bodies found in mound oppo- 

 site Nashville, Tenn., 42, 43, 45, figs. U-8 

 Sheppard, burial cave on plantation of Mr. William, near 



Pulaski, Giles Co., Tenn., 3 

 Shrouds of bodies found in cave on Smith's Fork of Cum- 

 berland River, Tenn., 3 

 of body found in limi'stone cavern in Kentucky, 4 

 of human remains from cave in Warren Co., Tenn., 2 

 Silex fragments, in grave at earthwork near Franklin, 

 Tenn., 61 

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

 Silvei" Blulf, temple iu Talmaco, on .Savannah River, 106 

 pure, obtained from stone grave near Lick Branch, 

 Tenn., 45 

 Sioux, burial customs among the, 15, 24 

 Skeleton in coffiu from mound at stone fort near Man- 

 chester, Tenn., 102 

 in octagonal stone grave in mound of earthwork 

 near Franklin, Tenn., 58 

 Skeletons discovered in burial-ground near fortification 

 near Carthage, Tenn., 3 

 excavated at Salem, Mass., 34 

 exposeti by caving of banks of (Cumberland River 



opposite Nashville, Tenn., 7 

 from carefully constructed grave in mound ojiposite 



Nashville, Tenn., 44 

 from graves in earthwork near Franklin, Tenn., 62, 



72, 73 

 from mound near Brentwood, Tenn., 37 

 without eotfin near altiir of mound opposite N.ash- 

 ville, Tenn., 45 

 Skin, color of, of bodies found in cave on Smith's Fork of 

 Cumberland River, Tenn., 3 

 of body found in liuiestone cavern iu Kentucky, 5 

 22 September, 1876. 



Skipwitb, Col. Peyton, obtains stone vessel from Missis-. 



sippi, 145 

 Skull from grave near Franklin, Tenn., 73 



from graves on liill of Col. Uverton's residence in 



Tennessee, 39, 40 

 from mnund at stone fort near Manchester, Tenn., 



102 

 from rock mound near Pulaski, Tenn., 109 

 misshaped, from grave of earthwork near Franklin, 

 Tenn., 62 

 Slavery destroyed American aborigines, 89 

 Sloaue, Sir Hans, M.D., Natural History of Diseases of 



West India Islands, 63 

 Smallpox in America, 94 



in Mexico, 90 

 Smith County, Tenn., images from, 135 

 Smith, History of New Jersey by, reference made to, 34 

 Smith's Fork of Cumberland River, burial cave found 



on, 3 

 Suodgrass, Dr. Jas. H., on Indian graves in vicinity of 



Sparta, Tenn., 12, 13 

 Soemmering on the foramen magnum, 116, 117 

 Soils, History of Conqueit of Mexico, 27 

 South American Indians, attachment of, to spot where 



bones of their fathers repose, 32 

 South Caiollna visited by De Ayllon, 104 

 Spaniards found Mexicans reverencing stone cut in form 

 of cross, 77 

 found pearls in grave in one of the chief towns 

 of Cutifacbiqui, 14 

 Sparta, White Co. , Tenn., burying-grounds at, 8 



cave containing human bones found near, 2 

 Dr. E. L. Gardenhire on mound and Indian 



graves near, 12 

 Dr. Jas. H. Snodgrass on Indian graves iu 



vicinity of, 12, 13 

 small skeleton discovered near, 10 

 stone from mound near, 134 

 vessels and ornament with cross painted 

 on them found in grave in, 77 

 Spear-heads from ancient work near Franklin, Teun., 76, 

 fig. 43 

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

 from (.Hdtown, Tenn., 87 



jasper, from valley of Cumberland River, Tenn., 

 140, figs. 77, 7s 

 Spear-shaped implement from ancient graveyard on 



White Creek Road, Tenn., 53 

 Splx and Martlus, Travels in Brazil, 33 

 Squier, E. G., discovered idols at Memotombita aud Za- 

 patero, 136 

 rectifies error respecting crosses mentioned by 



Bonturinl, 78 

 reference made to, 136 

 Squier and Davis mention stonework near Manchester, 



Tenn., 100 

 Stars venerated by aborigines, 106 

 St. Louis, Mo., small stone grave near, 10 

 Stephens, John L., carvings from Central America, 136 

 describes tablet from ruins of Palenque, 77 

 Travels In Central America of, 77 

 Yucatan of, reference made to, 136 

 Stone and clay images from mounds and stone graves 

 in Tennessee, 128-136 

 casing around body In saltpetre cave In Warren Co.. 



Ky., 5 

 cofiins used by ancient race of Tennessee for burial 



of their dead, 7 

 cover of graves in Tennessee, S 

 fort, 100, figs. 56. 57, 60 

 from farm of Turner Lane, in White Co., Teun. — 



from Sparta, 134 

 graves around altar in burial mound near inclosure 

 on West Harpeth River, Tenn., 81 

 construction of, 8 

 exposed by caving of banks of Cumberland 



River opposite Nashville, Tenn., 7 

 in Tennessee, 7-35 

 of work at Oldtown, Teun., 83 



