![]() ![]() Skin-painting and Tattooing.-Manufacture of Carpets, Fcather-sbawla, and Hamate and Divorce.-Punishment of Adultery.-Costume and Ornaments. OSes of the Conjurer or Medicine-man.-Treatment of the Sick.-Medicinal I'liints.-Towns and Private Houses.-Tenure of Property.-Agricultural Pursuits.-Town Plantations and Private Gardens.-Public Granaries.-Ani mal and Vegetable Food.-Mechanical Labors.-Early Mining inDuke's-Crec-k Valley.-Manufacture of Canoes, Pottery, Copper Implements, Gold, Slyer, Shell, and Stone Ornaments.-Various Implements and Articles of Stone, Rone, and Wood.-Trade Relations. Offering of the Stag.-Idol-Worship.-^-Religious Ideas.-The SUTI among theĪT ateljez,-The Cacica of Cutifacliiqiu.-Mausoleum of Titlomeco.-Tombs of Of Government.-The Mico,-The Bead War-Chief.-Public Buildings in aġ Creek Village.-Mode of Warfare.-Office of High-Priest.-Sun-Worsbip. Location of Tribes.-Physical Characteristics of the Southern Indians.-System Prepared at irregular intervals and in odd mo ments as they could be borrowed from the exacting and ever-recurring engagements of an active profes sional life, these pages, -with their manifest short comings, are offered in the hope that they will, at least in some degree, minister to the information and pleasure of those who are not incurious with regard to the subject of American archseology. ![]() Primitive peoples, I here renew my cordial and gratefnl acknowledgments. To the friends who have kindly aided me in gather ing together a cabinet which so fully and beautifully represents the arts and the manufactures of these Most of these relics were obtained by me in situ. The accompanying plans of mounds were prepared from personal surveys, and nearly every typical object used in illustration may be seen in the author's collec tion. "When ever these could be interpreted in the light of early recorcled observations, or were capable of explanation by customs not obsolete at the dawn of the historic period, the authorities relied upon have been carefully noted. ![]() various relics obtained from burial-mounds, gathered amid refuse-piles, found in an cient graves, and picked up in cultivated fields and on the sites of old villages and fishing-resorts. This introducto ry part of the work is followed by an examination of tumuli, earthworks, and. customs of the Southern Indians, at the time of primal contact between them and the Europeans. Our object lias been, from the earliest and most authentic sources of information at command, to con vey a correct impression of the location, character istics, form of government, social relations, manufac tures, domestic economy, diversions, and. A striking similarity exists among the customs, uten sils, implements, and ornaments of all the Southern Indians : consequently, in elucidating the archeology of a region often occupied in turn by various tribes, it seemed appropriate to mention and contrast theĪntiquities of Virginia, the Carolinas, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. It will be remembered, more over, that the original grant from the British crown conveyed to the Trustees of the Colony of Georgia a territory greater by far than that now embraced with in the geographical limits accorded to her as a State. In prosecuting the pro posed inquiries, it appeared both unnecessary and im proper narrowly to observe the boundary-lines which separate modern States. THIS VOLUME IS Al'FKCTIONATELY IffSCRI OXE OF HER SONSĪI/THOTJGII the title intimates that our investiga tions have been directed principally to an examination of> the antiquities of a single State, the present work will be found to embrace within its scope a much more extended field of observation. JONES, JR., Ilio office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washm^to: A P P L E T O N A N 1) COMPANYĬITAHI/ES C. Records containing the words bread and butter or bread and fruit Records containing the phrase “African American” and art Records with the word Brunswick but not the word stew Records with the word low that also contain girl and/or scouts ![]() Truncation and wildcards are not supported This Search You can use parentheses in your complex expressions Use "OR", "AND", and "NOT" (must be capitalized) to create complex boolean logic Use "-" before a word or phrase to exclude Use "+" before a term to make it required (Otherwise results matching only some of your terms may be included) Use quotation marks to search as a phrase Select "Full text" to search only the scanned or transcribed text for items. Select "Records" to search only metadata for items. Select "Records and Full text" to search both the metadata and available full text. ![]()
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