170 



INDEX. 



Stone graves, size and shape of, 9 



with Immaii ii'uiiiiiis (.•mid in Tennessee, 1 

 witliin work at Oidtown, Teiin., S2 

 Latcliets of liard silicious material, beautifully 

 pi>lished, obtaiuKd fiom graves in Nashville, 

 'IVnn., 7 

 found around mounds on Cumberland River, 

 Teun., 4!) 

 heaps near IVIauchester, Teun., 55 

 images, 4 



implements from ancient graveyard on White Creek 

 Road. Tenn , 53, fig. 21 

 found in alluvial plain around the burying- 



ground opposite Nashvilh', Tenn., 7 

 found in Tennessee illustrate condition of 



foiiner inhabitants, 1 

 from Tennessee, 141 



from valley of Cumberland River, Tenn., 13!) 

 in fields near mounds on Cumberland River, 

 Tenn., 49 

 mounds of stone fort near Manchester, Teun., 101 

 pipe from work at ()ldtuwn, Tenn., 87 

 River, Tenn., burying-grounds along, 8 



mounds on b.Tuks of, 36 

 vessel from Mississippi, 144 

 from Tennessee, 144, 145 

 Strawberry Plains, Knox Co., Tenn., idol found in cave 



on Holston River, near, 128 

 Sulphur spring, Nashville, Tenn., relics found around, 7 

 Sun worshipped by aborigines, lOG 



painted in limestone blulf forming south bank of 



the Ho'ston, Tenn., 4 

 py]*amid of Teotihuacan, Mexico, 28 

 Surinam inhabited by Caribs, 122 



Sword, stone, from octagonal grave in mound of earth- 

 work near f'ianklin, Teun., fig. 24 

 dimensions of, 58 



superiority to other existing specimens, 58 

 Sycamore, Clieatham Co., Tenn., stone graves at, 3, 55 

 Syphili.s, antiquity of, among Indians, 71 

 destroyed .American aborigines, 80 

 traces of, in bones found in graves in Tennessee, 

 35 

 from graves near Tennessee, 01, 65-73 

 fronr mound on Cumberland! River, Tenn., 49 

 from stone graves at Oidtown, Teun., 85 



Tae-heih of the Chinese, 137, fig. 73 



Tablet described by Mr. Stevens from the ruins of 



Palenque, 77 

 Tallahatchie River, Fayette County, Mississippi, stone 



vessel from mound on, 144 

 Talmaco, temple in, 106 

 Taunta, Valescus de, re.specting syphilis, C9 

 Tecbichi, a domestic quadiuped killed on occasion of 



Mexican funeral, 26, 27 

 Teeth as evidence that small crania belong to children 

 and not to pigmies, 1), 13 

 of body from limestone cavern in Kentucky, 5 

 Temples close to Teotilinacan, Mexico, 27 



found in Florida by Narvaez, in which were chests 



containing a body each, 14 

 in Talmaco, 6u Savannah River, near Silver Bluff, 



106 

 of aborigines, mounds probably the sites of, 36 

 of Anahuac, cross in, 78 



terra-cotta heads from, 120 

 Tennessee, abandonment of aboriginal remains by prim- 

 itive inhabitants, 88 

 Historical Society, implements at Museum of, 142 

 Indians in, wore feather mantles at the time of De 



Soto's march through the south, 2 

 location in, of stone graves containing human re- 

 mains, 1 

 River, mounds on banks of Big and Little, 36 



remains on, 104 

 stone graves in, 8 

 wigwams of aborigines of, 38 



Teotihuacan, Mexico, tempies and sepulchres near, 27 

 piyramids of, 120, 132 

 sun and moon pyramid at, 28 

 Tezcatzoncatl, habit of a deceased Mexican drunkard, 25 

 Tezcallipoca, mask put on face of idol in case of Mexican 



king's sickness, 26 

 Thnnja, Vi. A., plan of fortification near Manchester 



Teun., 100 

 Tlaloc, a drowned Mexican arrayed in the d]ess of, 25 

 TIascala, smallpox in, 94 



Toledo, trarci Gutierez de, discovered gold in Peruvian 

 tonib, 31 

 visited by Humboldt, 31 

 Toltecans compressed the skull, 119 

 Toltecs, account of the, 90 



abandoned Mexico from pestilence, 89 



flattening of cranium among, 121 



of Mexico, resemblance of crania of Kentucky and 



Tennessee stone-grave race and tlnise t>l the, 72 

 re-emblance of crania of, to those of aborigines of 

 Tennessee, of Peruvians, and Natchez, 120, 121 

 Tomahawk, iron, from mound ou Franklin Pike, near 



Nashville, Tenn., 52 

 Tomb near Truxillo, gold found in, 29 



royal, or quiogozou, of the North Carolina Indians, 

 23 

 Tombs, construction of Peruvian, according to Garcilasso, 



30 

 Tonacaguaheritl or tree of life luistaken for a cioss, 78 

 Tonawanda. Senecas jesided at, 15 

 Topiltzin, Chief of Toltecs, 90 

 Torquemada on coujpression of skull, 119 



states loss of Indians from Matlazahuatl from small- 

 pox, 90, 94 

 Townsend, Mr., on method of flattening the head, 123 

 Transact. Amer. Etlmolog. Society, reference made to, 



12, 136 

 Travels in Central America, Stephens, 77 

 Troost, Dr. G., certifies as to inclosuie near Paris, Tenn., 

 131 

 describes idol inclosed in a large shell — found 



utensils, 135 

 on attitude of skeletons from mounds in Ten- 

 nessee, 34 

 on Indi.in cemeteries, 11, 12 

 ou value of shells among the aborigines, 45 

 Truxillo, gold found in tomb near, 29 

 Tumuli in Guiana not to be met with, 32 



at Kertsch in the Crimea, Dr. Rathke on crania 

 from, 118 

 Tupac Yupanqui, corpse of, seen by Garcilasso, 29 



UcHEES, ravages of smallpox among, 97 



UUoa, articles found in Huaca in presence of, 30 



describes fevers in the tropics, 90 

 Utensils buried with the dead in Tennessee, 8 

 found by Dr. Troost, 135 



found near stonework near Manchester, Tenn., 101 

 from stone grave near Brentwood, Teini., 41 

 inclosed in coffin of body in saltpetre cave, Warren 

 Co., Ky., 5 



Vaccine inoculation, 96 

 Valladolid, smallpox in, 96 



cowpox in, 96 

 Valmis, Don Antonio, found cowpox in Valladolid and 



in Alesco, near La Puebla, 96 

 Vambery, Arminius, on burial customs of Turcomans 



118 

 Vase found in ancient pyramid of Cbolula. Mexico, 29 

 from grave in earthwork near Franklin, Tenn., 59, 



60,61. 64, 65, figs. 26, 27 

 from burial mound near Brentwood, Tenn., 41, fig. 3 

 from grave on Mr. Dixon's farm, ou White Creek 



Road, Tenn., 53, fig. 22 

 painted, near fi-male skeleton near altar in mound 

 opposite Nashville, Tenn., 45, 46 



