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Mills, W. C, cifed, 203, 218. 



Missouri Historical Society of St. Louis, 



specimens owned by, 181. 

 Missouri Indians, 8, 9. 



ancient villages of, 10, 11. 

 Missouri River, climate of I'egion, 7. 



floods in, 2, 3. 



oxbow lakes near, 2. 



principal tributaries near Kansas 

 City, 3. 



suitability of valley for aboriginal 

 occupation, 8. 



valley near Kansas City, 2. 

 Molluscan remains, from Renner site, 28. 



from Steed-Kisker site, 73. 

 Monks Mound aspect, Middle Mississippi 



culture, 212. 

 Moorehead, W. K., cited, 202-204, 209- 



211, 218. 

 Morrison, J. P. E., viii. 

 Morton, C. V., viii. 

 Morton focus. Central Basin, 218. 

 Mound Builders, Chambered, in Kansas, 



13. 

 Mound City group, 202. 

 Mound series skeletons, condition of, 258. 



measurements of, 259, 270-272. 



pathology of, 258, 

 Mound series skulls, anomalies of, 249. 



comparisons with other groups, 268. 



condition of, 248. 267. 



deformity in, 249, 2.'>0. 



measurements of, 250-254, table 13. 



pathology of, 248. 



sex of, 249. 



suture closure in, 249. 



teeth of, 249. 

 Mounds (see also Mounds, stone-cham- 

 hered; Mounds, earth), two main 

 types of in Platte County, Mo., 

 105. 



western limit of occurrence in Kan- 

 sas, 105. 

 Mounds, earth (see also Shepherd, Avon- 

 dale, and Renner mounds), probable 

 cultural affiliations of, 190. 

 Mounds, stone-chambered, 150-185. 



probable affiliations of, 184. 



cultural material from, 157, 180-181. 



near Deister site, 157. 



distribution, 106, 150 ff., 178. 



in Doniphan County, Kans., 159. 



near latan. Mo., 159. 



near mouth of Line Creek, Mo., 151. 



in central Missouri, 162-168. 



northern limit of occurrence in Mis- 

 souri Valley, 160. 



outside Missouri, 169. 



on Pearl Branch, Mo., 106. 



in Ralls and Pike Counties, Mo., 168. 



relation to cist graves, 185. 



skeletal types from, 157. 1S2. 



subareas characterized, 17S-181. 



near Warrensburg, Mo., 160. 

 Moundville, age of, 2(}4. 

 Mu.ssett site, Kansas, 102. 



National Bureau of Standards, report on 



textiles by, 86. 

 Nebraska culture, 71, 104, 160, 192-193, 

 195, 210, 215, 217. 

 influenced by Middle Mississippi 



culture, 213-215, 222. 

 blending of Middle Mississippi and 

 Woodland elements in, 222. 

 Needles, bone, 47, 170, 186, 195, 199. 

 Neuhoff, Dorothy, cited, 12. 

 Neumann, G. K., cited, 169, 181-184, 219, 



250-252, 254, 257-258, 264. 

 Newman, M. T., and Snow, C. E., 250- 



253, 255. 

 Nichols mound, Trempealeau, Wis., 172. 

 Nodaway Island, 7. 

 Nolan, Ray, viii, 106. 

 Nolan mound A, 115. 



articulated skeleton from, 247. 

 skeletal remains from, 246, table 14. 

 Nolan moimd B, 117. 

 Nolan mound C, 119, 132, 181. 

 Nolan mound D, 125. 

 < )bsidian, 50, 99. 

 Ogden-Fettie focus, Hopewellian phase, 



198. 

 O.jibway Indians, Centralid physical 



element noted among, 219. 

 Old Village culture, Cahokia, 212. 

 (3maha Indians, 9, 61, 210. 

 Onate, encounter with E.^cansaques, 9. 

 Oneota culture, 26, 172, 193, 194, 207, 211, 



215, 217. 

 Orr, Kenneth, vii. 

 Osage Indians, 8, 9. 



ancient villages of, 10, 11. 

 Platte County archeological re- 

 mains not attributable to, 214. 

 Osage Plains, 2. 

 Olo Indians, 9, 11. 



Ouchago Indians (see Osage Indians). 

 Ozark Bluff-Dwellers, pumpkin and sun- 

 flower remains from, 72. 

 Paine, R. G., viii. 

 Paint Creek (Kans.) culture, 194. 

 Papaw, from Renner site, 26. 

 Parakeets, Carolina, 6. 

 Parkville, Mo., 3, 15, 106, 182. 

 Pathology, absence of in Steed-Kisker 

 series skulls, 254. 

 in mound series skulls, 248. 

 in mound series skeletons, 258. 

 in Steed-Kisker series skeletons, 

 260. 

 Pawnee Indians, 53, 186, 191, 195, 215. 

 "Pays des Missouris," 9. 

 Peabody Museum of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, explorations by, 13, 154. 

 Peari Branch, Mo., 105. 



artifacts from mounds summarized, 



157. 

 mounds on, 106-129. 157, 180. 

 other remains, 12^132. 

 skeletal remains summarized, 157, 

 183 

 Pearl, O., viii, 106. 



