The lithographs which illustrate this paper have been made by Thos. Sinclair & Son, of Philadelphia, Pa., after original drawings made by Mr. W. H. Holmes, who has with great kindness superintended their preparation. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Hist. Ind. Tribes of U.S., 1853, pt. 3, p. 193.] [Footnote 2: Antiq. of Southern Indians, 1873, pp. 108-110.] [Footnote 3: Hist. of Carolina, 1714, p. 181.] [Footnote 4: Hist. Ind. Tribes of U.S., 1855, pt. 5, p. 270.] [Footnote 5: Rep. Smithsonian Institution, 1871, p. 407.] [Footnote 6: Voy. dans l’Arizona, in Bull. Soc. de Géographie, 1877.] [Footnote 7: Nat. Races Pacif. States 1874, vol. 1, p. 555.] [Footnote 8: Cont. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol. iii, p. 133.] [Footnote 9: L’incertitude des Signes de la Mort, 1749, t. 1, p. 439.] [Footnote 10: Rites of Funeral, Ancient and Modern, 1683, p. 45.] [Footnote 11: Schoolcraft Hist. Ind. Tribes of the United States, 1853, Pt. 3, p. 140.] [Footnote 12: U.S. Geol. Surv. of Terr. 1876, p. 473.] [Footnote 13: Life and adventures of Moses Van Campen, 1841, p. 252.] [Footnote 14: Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc., 1830, vol i, p. 302.] [Footnote 15: Antiquities of Tennessee. Smith. Inst. Cont. to Knowledge. No. 259, 1876. Pp. 1, 8, 37, 52, 55, 82.] [Footnote 16: Pop. Sc. Month., Sept., 1877, p. 577.] [Footnote 17: Nat. Races of the Pacific States, 1874, vol. i, p. 780.] [Footnote 18: A detailed account of this exploration, with many illustrations, will be found in the Eleventh Annual Report of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 1878.] [Footnote 19: Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc., 1820, vol. i, p. 174 _et seq._] [Footnote 20: American Naturalist, 1877, xi, No. 11, p. 688.] [Footnote 21: Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. of Science, 1875, p. 288.] [Footnote 22: Bartram’s Travels, 1791, p. 513.] [Footnote 23: Bartram’s Travels, 1791, p. 515.] [Footnote 24: A Concise Nat. Hist. of East and West Florida, 1775.] [Footnote 25: Mem. Hist. sur la Louisiane, 1753, vol. i, pp. 241-243.] [Footnote 26: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1870, vol i, p. 464.] [Footnote 27: Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1867, p. 406.] [Footnote 28: Contrib. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol. 1, p. 62.] [Footnote 29: Hist. of Virginia, 1722, p. 185.] [Footnote 30: Collection of Voyages, 1812, vol. xiii, p. 39.] [Footnote 31: Hist. Ind. Tribes United States, 1854, Part IV, pp. 155 _et seq._] [Footnote 32: Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc., 1820, vol. 1, p. 360.] [Footnote 33: Letter to Samuel M. Burnside, in Trans. and Coll. Amer. Antiq. Soc., 1820, vol. 1, p. 318.]