Travels Amongst American Indians, Their Ancient Earthworks and Temples: Including a Journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a Visit to the Ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and UxmalBrine, Lindesay
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Travels Amongst American Indians, Their Ancient Earthworks and Temples: Including a Journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a Visit to the Ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal
Brine, Lindesay
Guatemala -- Antiquities; Indians -- Antiquities; Mexico -- Antiquities; North America -- Description and travel
San Pedro, 284–288:
Indians, 285–288:
River, 289.
Santa Cruz del Quiché, 216, 230.
Santorin, island of, 198.
San Tomas, 209, 211, 215.
Sault Ste. Marie, Jesuit Mission at, 48.
Scherzer, Dr., 176, 180, 183, 185.
Scioto River, 76, 77.
Seal rocks, the, 177.
Senecas tribe, 34, 151, 152, 155, 157.
Sequechul, Indian named, 227.
Serpent totems, xiv, 350, 351.
Serpent worship, 398, 399:
by the Dakotas, 170.
Seward, Mr., 257–258.
Shakers, the, 8, 9.
Shawnee tribe, 94, 153:
burial mounds of, 78.
Shell heaps at Concord, 21.
Shell mounds in Florida, 14, 375, 377:
in Maine, 28–33.
Shoshone Indians, 146–148, 174.
Sierra Madre mountains, 238, 246, 247.
Sierras between San Pedro & Palenque, 282–284, 290–294.
Sinigiglia, 253.
Sioux Indians, 131:
methods of burial with, 63:
an encampment of, 114–116:
worship of spirit rocks, 117–119, 169:
the Ogallalas tribe of, 122, 123:
Red Cloud, chief of the, 123:
and sun worship, 162, 163:
medicine man, 164, 165:
mourning customs, 165–166:
and lightning, 166:
and transmigration, 167–168:
human sacrifice of, 172, 173.
Sioux War, the, 120–122.
Sisal, port of, 372, 373.
Sissiton tribe of Sioux, 172, 173.
Skulls of Indians, 19, 20.
Smith, Mr. James, 134.
Smith, Joseph, founder of Mormonism, 111, 112.
Snowstorm, a violent, 128, 129.
Socoleo, fortress of, 235–237.
Solares, General, 191.
Sololá, 209.
Southern States of America, 5.
Spain and Utatlan, 226–231:
and employment of natives as carriers in Mexico, 275.
Spaniards kept in cages by Aztecs, 397.
Spirit rocks, Sioux worship of, 117–119, 169.
Squier, Mr. E. G., 19, 64, 159, 221.
Stansfield, Captain, 142.
Steam bath, an Indian, 279.
Stephens, Mr., 2, 294, 298, 307, 309, 341.
Stone at Dighton, 33.
Stone hammers, 44.
_Stonewall_, S.S., 104, 105.
Succession of forest trees, 139, 140.
Sumner, Mr., 26.
Sun worship, by the Pawnees, 133:
by all the Indian tribes in Mississippi valley, 161–164, 261–262.
Sun worshippers, the Natchez tribe, 381.
Superstition, the Pawnees and, 134:
the Dakotas and, 170:
Yucatan Indians and, 366–369.
Tacara, volcano, 246.
Tallegewi, the, 94, 385.
Tampa, 374, 377, 379.
“Temblor,” a, 246.
Téotihuacan, pyramids of, 395.
Temples at Izamal, 393:
at Uxmal, 339–358, 394, 395.
Temple of the Cross, at Palenque, 304–306.
Tepan Guatemala, 202, 206.
Terran, Padre Juan Batista de, 233.
Thomas, Professor Cyrus, 68, 69, 382–384.
Thornton, Mr., 5.
Ticknor, Mr., 13, 14, 22, 25.
Tihoo, 392, 393.
Tlacupa, King of, 325.
Todos Santos, 238–241.
Toltecs, 391, 395, 398, 400–404, 422,
_see also_ Aztecs, Tallegwi.
Totems of Indians, 84–86:
of the Toltecs, 398, 399.
Trade-winds in the Atlantic, 419, 420:
in the Pacific, 421–422.
Traditions, Indian, _re_ Ohio earthworks, 94–103.
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