C.

Cabots, 22.

Cabral, discovery of Brazil by, 506.

Cabrera on the origin of the Votanites, 208–9; on Votanic document, 207.

Cahita, language of New Mexico, 487.

Cahokia mound, 41.

Calapooya language, traces of Aztec in, 490.

Calaveras Co. (Cal.) cranium, 125; views of Whitney, Wyman and others on, 125.

Calendar systems, mound-builder, 40. Maya, 435–45; days, 436; months, 437; the Katun, 439–40; Ahau Katun, 441; succession of, 442. Nahua or Mexican, its construction, 243, 446–59; perfection of, 519; year, 447; days and weeks, 448; inter-calation, 448; Ritual year, 449; lords of night, 449; Calendar Stone, 408–9; interpreted by Gama, Chevero and Valentini, 450–58; history, 452–3, 457.

California, traces of antiquity of man in, 125.

California languages and their affinities to Chinese, 495; Japanese, 496.

Canals constructed by Mound-builders, 98–100.

Caras or Carians ancient navigators, 507; Brasseur on, 507.

Carr’s Measurements of Crania, 173; on low-type mound crania, 174.

Carter, 22; Carter, Dr. J. Van A., on stone implements, 24, n. 1.

Carthaginian colonization of America, 145–6

Cara Gigantesca, 404.

Casa del Ecó, 312. Gobernador (Uxmal), 347–50. Grande of Zayi, 353. de Monjas, sculptures of, 394.

Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, 276; Aztec station at, 277. of the Gila, 284.

Cataclysm, traditions of a, 499.

Cave explorations, 26. dwellings, 292–311, 313. village of Rio Chelley, 313. shelters of San Juan, 319. fortresses of Rio Mancos, 320.

Ceacatl Quetzalcoatl, Toltec king, 272.

Cemetery, aboriginal, 65.

Centennial Report of Ohio Arch. Asso., 82.

Centla, pyramid of, 365–6.

Cephalic index of crania, 160.

Ceremonial law, analysis of, 463.

Chaac-Mol, statue of, 397–400.

Chaco Valley, ruined pueblo in, 291; peculiarity of architecture, 292.

Chalcas, Nahua tribe, 256.

Chalco, lake, 264.

Challenger, voyage of, 502; “Challenger plateau,” 502–3.

Chalcatzin, Toltec chief, 244.

Chamber, interior in mound, 75.

Chanes, ancient races, 206.

Charencey, 425.

Chelly Cañon, antiquities of, 293; cave-village of, 313–14; house in, 315.

Chevero, interpretation of Mexican Calendar Stone by, 450–2.

Chiapan architecture, 340.

Chiapas, ancient civilization of, 203.

Chichen-Itza, antiquities of, 353–5, 397–403; mural paintings at, 401.

Chichilticale, “red house,” 281.

Chichimecs, Mexican nation, 243; dynasty of, 254; language of, 255, 480; Pimentel on, 255–6.

Chicomoztoc (Chichimostoc) Nahua home, 256–7; identical with “seven caves,” 261, n.; 264–66.

Chihuahua, Casas Grandes of, 275; original descriptions of, 276; material and dimensions of, 276–77.

Children’s graves in Tennessee, 66–8.

Chimalhuacan, Toltec station, 245.

Chinook language, traces of Aztec in, 490, n. 3.

Cholula pyramid, 235; not related to a flood, 235, 237; origin according to Duran, 236, 368–70.

Christ myth in Yucatan, 231, 464.

Christy collection, Mosaic knife from, 412.

Chinese colonization of America, 148.

Chronology, accepted faulty, 199, 200; Duke of Argyll on, 200. Maya, 435–45; adjusted to ours, 443–45.

Cibola, seven cities of, 288.

Cincinnati mound-works. 44–6; tablet, 44–6.

Circumcision, 463.

Cists, stone, 60.

Civilization, American contrasted with that of ancient Britons, 520.

Clallam and Lummi languages, Aztec element in, 490.

Clarke, Robert, on Cincinnati Tablet, 44–6. on Morgan’s Pueblo theory, 55, n. 2.

Classification of crania, 160–3. of mound-works by Squier and Davis, and Foster, 81. of mound relics by Rau, 82, n. 1.

Clavigero, views on origin of Americans, 140, n. 1. on first colonists of America, 204.

Cliff-dwellers, 293; their traditional history, 302.

Cliff-dwellings of the Mancos Cañon, 298–99, 319. McElmo Cañon, 302. Hovenweep, 305–7. San Juan, 307, 308, 319. and Rock Shelters on San Juan, 309. house of Chelly Cañon, 315. in Montezuma Cañon, 316.

Cloth from mounds, 37, 43.

Coast level, elevation and depression of, 405.

Coffins, stone, 60.

Columbus, 22; stern-post of ship seen by, 506.

Colonists, first in Mexico, 242.

Color, variety in human races, 197, 198; Darwin on origin of, 199.

Color of ancient Americans, 189; Pritchard on, 189, n. 2.

Colorado River, ruins in Grand Cañon of, 285. Major Powell’s exploration, 285–87.

Colorado Chiquito, antiquities of, 287.

Columbia River languages, 492.

Conant, A. J., explorations by, 76, 77; on ancient canals, 98, 100.

Conflict of science and dogmatism, 131.

Confusion of tongues, 238.

Connett mound, 56.

Conquest of Xibalba, 222–5.

Copan, 221; ruins of, 356–59; sculpture of, 404–5.

Copper in mounds, 85; ancient mines of, 89–94; theory of Mexican supply, 93, 493. relics from Wisconsin, 99.

Cora language and its relation to Aztec, 486–7.

Cosmogonic egg, 416, 419, 465.

Coronado’s journey to New Mexico, 281, n. 1.

Cox, Prof., discoveries cited, 75.

Cox-cox, Mexican Noah, 262, n. 1.

Cox-cox, Bancroft’s observations on, 263, 454.

_Crania Americana_, measurements of, classified, 161–3.

Cranial measurements, 159–60.

Crania from mounds, testimony of, 105–6. River Rogue, 167; measurements by Gillman, 168. Davenport, Farquharson’s measurements, 169–70; from Ohio, 170; from Kentucky, 171; from Tennessee, 171; comparison, 174; compression of common, 178, 184; among Chinooks, 182; among other American tribes, 183.

Cranium, low type, discovered by Conant, 174.

Cremation probable, 85.

Cristone of McElmo Cañon, 301.

Cross, subterranean temple of, 363. Tablet of, 390.

Cruciform works at Trenton, Wis., 35.

Crux Ansata at Palenque, 416–17.

Cukulcan culture hero, 230–31, 272, 394, 457.

Culhuacan, 226.

Culhuas (Nahuas) sometimes applied to Mayas, 209.

Curtiss, Ed., explorations by, 65.