V.

Valentini, Dr. Ph., interpretation of Mexican Calendar Stone, 453–59; on analogies in geographical names, 497.

Vancouver’s Island, Aztec termination used, 490; elements in, 491.

Vases from Casas Grandes, 278; burial from Mexico, 410; after Waldeck, 410; from National Museum, 414–15.

Vater, on the Aztec language, 480–90.

Vega, Bishop Nuñez de la, 200.

Vegetation, age of on mounds, 104; relation between American and Asiatic, 513.

Vera Paz, mounds of, 359.

Verda Rio, antiquities of, 284.

Verrezano, 22.

Vespucius, 22.

Voc, mythical personage, 222.

Votan (culture hero), tradition of cited, 133–9, 145, 204. document written by, 206–10.

Vucub-Cakix, Xilbalban monarch, 222.

Vucab-Came, 224.

Vukub-Hunapu, Quiché chief, 222.

W.

Wabash Valley, mounds in, 57, n. 2.

Watch-tower of the Mancos, 300.

Waterbury Mine, 91.

Waynesville, Ohio, inter-glacial relics from, 126.

Welsh discovery of America, 154.

Whipple, Lieut., explorations by, 284.

“White-man’s land,” 152.

Whittlesey, Col., on Shelter Caves, 26. on ancient copper mines, 91, 94.

Wilson, Dr. Daniel, cranial measurements tabulated, 164; observations by, on Morton’s theory, 165, n. 2; examinations of Peruvian crania by, 176; on head-flattening, 180–2; on Cincinnati Tablet, 47.

Wisconsin mound-works, 33; effigy and animal mounds of, 33.

Worship of sun, 40.

Writing, systems of, see Hieroglyphics.

Wyman, Jeffries, on shell-heaps of Florida, 155–8.