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BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY: J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR
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PROBLEM OF THE OHIO MOUNDS
BY
BRARY. |
Crt Uo EO Mi Ass
WASE INGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1889
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JUTOCINC@WION 5 ScceSteke bdo d bo Snee ee Sacer Carnee ae eee Ee Bert arise eee ea amer 7
PULIURem lem LUIS UOLICAlPEVICEN CO: o2:2 vie. csieis tins Cocina = ek, sincees cemncetcieew ose 9
CuarTer II. Similarity of the arts and customs of the mound-builders to those
(IP MAAS Sescteoe ctice ACE cele ane eer-aeee an eae eae sisters ier ere ens Eres 14
PAM CIMIUE CLINT Cerner atte eye wtciote a nluid Saco ctesnint fiefoeres oie ao wale osc ee woae eee es 14
PT UIECVASION Set rseee ce Se nics aes ois sores hace eiave cise soe Semiceneiviie ee cesar 18
SMIMNU Ib ye TOGO UT AIC US COMSE cease =o tein wiaicle win co Sisieraie Se cijae eee coe wens Sac 18
Remove Omunetieshwbetoresburializcec.cececets asec s see eec eo. le eeu occ ee 19
Un aD eMe ag OLNEY CLIUMOS ys soe ce sate see cisiclajeee cl Saeisisw, sete siete whic 2s ere 21
BULIVeMvasitNeOrsquavting POStUre:....-.-s.-s5 -4-=<. secenis sccm esee e=c- 21
iresuseroteliresime wHtaleceLeMONIeS =i sce. = soe eee eee oe = sees os nicloinci= 22 21
Similarity of the stone implements and ornaments of various tribes. ....-... 22
Mound and Indian pottery.....---..---- Be a eae oes Save sa tc eee ree eres 23
CmArrER Il. Stone graves and what they teach....-..-.......2--.-..--:..-s5: 25
UNE LV. ule) Cherokees as) mound-builders -.- 2. .2.<.-.-.<-sctees cece --22ee 3
CHAPTER Y. The Cherokees and the Tallegwi ......--. n QOS Seb eoaacuubeoses 38
Fig. 1.—Part of an iron blade from a North Carolina mound ...-...-..---....---
Fic. 2.—Engraved shell gorget from a Tennessee mound ......----.-----.------
Fig. 3.—Shell gorget with engraving of coiled serpent. ....-..----..-----.-----
Fig. 4.—Twined fabric impressed on a piece of pottery obtained from a mound
INgJ emerson. COuM tyes CNN CSSCOkecw cm olejsc acs cas = society alse seein ae ers
HiGw>.—Pipetromeilamilton County, Ohio <2 x. 1c, s2c2ceccceces= anecicnes seee
iGO. —-ipenromebamiltont County, Olior aoc... sas sites sso ea eee acre
Rice Young Mineralogist and Antiquarian, 1885, No. 10, p. 79.
4Am. Nat., vol. 16, 1882, pp. 265, 266.
'For examples of this form see Rau: Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, No.
Mevin wae 4 ele Lower, Dee
®6Science, 1884, vol. 3, p. 619.
7 Abbott, Prim. Industry, 1881, Fig. 313, p. 319; Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 3, 1872, p. 123.
8’ Morgan, League of the Iroquois, p. 356.
Fic. 5. Pipe from Hamilton County, Obio.
AO THE PROBLEM OF THE OHIO MOUNDS.
projection of the stem or base, the bowl remaining perpendicular. The
next modification is shown in Fig. 6,
which represents a type less common
than the preceding, but found in sey-
eral localites, as, for example, in Hamil-
ton County, Ohio; mounds in Sullivan
County, east Tennessee (by the Bu-
reau); and in Virginia.’ In these, al-
though retaining the broad or winged
stem, we see the bow! assuming the
forward slope and in some instances (as
some of those found in the mounds in Sullivan County, Tenn.) the pro-
jection of the stem is reduced to a simple rim or is entirely wanting.
Fit. 7. Pipe from Sullivan County, Tennessee.
I My
The next step brings us to what may be considered the typical form
of the modern pipe, shown in Fig. 8. This pattern, according to Dr.
Fic. 8. Pipe from Caldwell County, North Carolina
Abbott,’ is seldom found in New England or the Middle States, “ ex-
cept of a much smaller size and made of clay.” He figures one from
Isle of Wight County, Va., “made of compact steatite.” A large num-
ber of this form were found in the North Carolina mounds, some with
stems almost or quite a foot in length.
It is hardly necessary to add that among the specimens obtained from
various localities can be found every possible gradation, from the an-
cient Ohio type to the modern form last mentioned. There is, there-
‘Ran: Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, No, 287, p. 50, Fig. 190.
?Prim. Industry, 1861, p. 329.
THE PROBLEM OF THE OHIO MOUNDS. 41
fore, in this peculiar line of art and custom an unbroken chain connect-
ing the mound-builders of Ohio with the Indians of historic times, and
in the same facts is evidence, which strengthens the argument, discon-
necting the makers from the Mexican and Central American artisans.
As this evidence appears to point to the Cherokees as the authors of
some of the typical mounds of Ohio, if may be as well to introduce here
a summary of the data which bear upon this question.
Reasons which are thought well-nigh conclusive have already been
presented for believing that the people of this tribe were mound-build-
ers, and that they had migrated in pre-Columbian times from some
point north of the locality in which they were encountered by Euro-
peans. Taking up the thread of their history where it was dropped,
the following reasons are offered as a basis for the conclusion that their
home was for a time on the Ohio, and that this was the region from
which they migrated to their historic locality.
As already shown, their general movement in historic times, though
limited, has been southward. Their traditions also claim that their
migrations previous to the advent of the whites had been in the same
direction from some point northward, not indicated in that given by
Lederer, but in that recorded by Haywood, from the vailey of the
Ohio. But it is proper to bear in mind that the tradition given by
Lederer express'y distinguishes them from the Virginia tribes, which
necessitates looking more to the west for their former home. Haywood
connects them, without any authority, with the Virginia tribes, but the
tradition he gives contradicts this and places them on the Ohio.
The chief hostile pressure against them of which we have any knowl-
edge was from the Iroquois of the north. This testimony is further
strengthened by the linguistic evidence, as it has been ascertained that
the language of this tribe belongs to tbe Iroquoian stock. Mr. Horatio
Hale, a competent authority on this subject, in an article on Indian
migrations published in the American Antiquarian, ' remarks as follows:
Following the same course of migration from the northeast to the southwest, which
leads us from the Hurons of eastern Canada to the Tusearoras of central North Caro-
lina, we come to the Cherokees of northern Alabama and Georgia. 21
Bottle-shaped vases in mounds...........-. 24
Bourbourg, Brasseur de, on Toltec crema-
UNG 5c 8 SIRE GOS AOR DAD ORCS OC BOSE OCOMAAacee 19
Boyle, David, cited on Huron burial
INOUWNS |= o5(oioere cto o/o/relein sisicinkie => = :eiaieuteels 2% 18
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Brebeuf, Jean de, on Indian burial mounds. 18
on Huron communal
burials jo. see ee ae 21
on Huron mortuary use
offre sess se Ss esac 21
Burial customs of Indians and mound-build-
GLSisiMiUlariss. see eee ee ene ne 18,19
MOUNdS*. sence cee ct esse 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21
TUNGSL/NOUSES tees oe sores cee ace 16
C.
8
Cahokia origin of certain stone graves prob-
B16, Fee scorcss se cle cess scictele << elelealreetests 29
Canada mounds partly Huron .....-...---- 18
Carr, Lucien, cited against nomadic life of
Indians'.cwhe cspeacenedeee 9
on council-house mound ..-.. 33
Cartersville, Ga., Etowah burial mounds... 10, 29
Carver, Jonathan, on ancient earthworks
Nearsluake Pepin ke = erio 2 aes erste selnersictcaals il
Cass County, Ill., burial mounds in ........ 20
Charleston, W. Va., mounds near, connect
those of Ohio and Tennessce........-..-- 47, 48
@hellakederesesces a: eet cae eoelen caieeioe 49
C@herokeermicrationGcesss.ss-e senses oss 49
letters on a stone in a Tennessee
TNGUMN Cite ear cee steer Str ets 37
SLONC STAVES sec ee cceen me aeseicioee 26
Cherokees and the Tallegwi ... .......--. 8, 38-50
distinct from Shawnees.......-.. 43.
probable mound-builders -..---- 7,8
probable mound-builders of Ohio 8
probable mound-builders of Ten-
nessee and North Carolina. 30, 31-37
Chickasaw burial under dwellings..-...-..- 21
Chippeway and Pottawatomie — burial
MOUNC Sfeeceesce Sect eas sete emscciseeeesemet 13
Choctaw, burialimounds = S22. ecn= scree 11
mortuary use of fire.....-.......- 22
Clavigero cited on Mexican cremation..... 19
Clinton County, Michigan, mounds.....--. 13
Colden.on burial mounds) 2222.2 - 2 seca ae 11
Collinsionisalt-emakin @rooce- cesses amare ee 2
Copper bells, European, in burial mounds - 3:
Cowé, Cherokee mound at .-..-...-.--.---- 0
Creek burial under dwellings...........-.. 21
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, mounds, Iroquoian 50
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D. History of Alabama, Pickett, cited........ 22
; Carolina, Lawson, cited .....-.-. 21, 34
Davis. See Squier and Davis. Illinois, Reynolds, cited ......-.. 29
Delaware salt-kettle pottery.-------------- 7 27 Kentucky, Collins, cited.....-.. 27
stone (ee iC Sepoceac gene eases 28, 50 the Five Nations, Colden, cited. 11
tradition of migration applies to the Indians, Schoolcraft, cited . 26
} Cherokees... --<- -<-00a--0's a the Manners and Customs of the
De Soto cited on mound. ...-..------+------ Indian Tribes, John Hecke-
Dumont on Natchez mounds ......--------- 11 welder ‘clted) seamen 11, 20, 43-45
on pie reaie les= ivisiineinl= oie cia a the North American Indians,
Stee J. css emeerseis ae Be
Du Pratz on pete eate nas Adair, cited ............ 21, 23, 34, 35
Se ee aie or te Gaon oanaee ; os Virginia, Beverly, cited......... 34
on mae ROUGE YS ae anaes “° | Holmes, W.H., on engraved shells .-..-. sap ED
Dwellings of Indians and mound-builders on Tidian tapiaee ee 36
BUT es Deacon eae aye or eene ae Homsher, G. W., on Indian mounds.......- 50
E. Houses of Indians and mound-builders per-
IShable: ssa cenecces.ceseeme eee 15
Earle found a copper plate in Ilinois...--. 30 rectangular... -..--..--.- SC aeceeee 16
Early French voyages, Shea, cited .--.----. 10 BOMALG qc -sascn sys eco oe eee racecar 17,18
Eries possible builders of some works in Howland, H. R., found a copper plate in
ORO Betracees ote adultes ats se- bees taseews 50 Din O18 62 en cceencasccecc< ces ceiecspeecess 30
Essex County, Mass., pipes from graves in. 39 | Hunter on stone graves.........----------- 28
Essex mounds, Clinton County, Mich.--.-.- 139 mroniburialimounds:22ccseeees seen eae 18, 21
Btowals burialih Mounds... ss.0scccce + a22=-- 10, 29
European articles in mound graves. ...---- 33 Ts
Excursion through Slave States, Feather-
stonhaugh, cited .-..-.- Pree nee 12 | Illinois, sites of houses identified in ....... 15
burialsmoundstinsssecees snes e es 20, 21, 24
F. BLONGLOTAVOS AMecac ose seee sees 28
Featherstonhaugh on burial mounds. ...--. 12 COs plate found MO se eee Vane BY
pe ; aimee : Are and Ohio, mound-builders in, prob-
Fire in mortuary ceremonies. .-...-..--..--- 22 : :
: : - : ablevidentityiotesss.e-e--eoresac= 49
Florida, residence meunds in ......---.---- 10 : . :
: . On fe LndlansmMicraAllOns tame cc cam cise eeemee eee 41-50
DULisAMOUNCSMM: <= 5221. crate ote se 20 noe a ata f Mississipi Wal
Force on direction of Indian migration. --. 47 hg: ak a = colar Oy
Fort Wayne treaty as to salt grant... ...--- 27 ; ley and Gulf States. --..-----..--- i
Fowke, Gerard, found conncil-house mound — 53 Indiana, LD a Lb ‘la C370 po tame teal oe
Fox burial mound pec ecwesscwcccuesene acanea 13 con a a Seat pA ms j
TMOLUU ALY USOlOL MNO. see ae sea sieer nee 22 i a Pa ahaa ea dE = 2 BRR :
in burial customs .......-. 18, 19, 22, 23
G. in‘ Use'Of StONG ac. ose se ese 22, 23
IN POLLEY Sass Se acinie gee ceee 22, 23
Gallatin County, UL, salt-kettle pottery .24, 26,27 | Ingals, Mary, first white woman in Ken-
Garcilasso de Vega on mound-building..... 10 tuck yi Captive .-c-ccss seseseccceteeeeeee Meow
Gazetteer of Illinois, J. M. Peck, cited... . 26) Towa, Mounds ineseeooec-s ee ceee eee eee 21
the States of Illinois and Mis- PIPOSHN 7 -Sos. ce ease. aoeee eee 42
souri, Lewis C. Beck, cited.. 12 | Tron blade from North Carolina mound.... 31
Georgia, burial mounds in .-.-.......--. 19, 20,29 | Iroquoian works in New York ...........-. 18
burial under dwellings in......... 21 connection of Cherokees .....--. 42
Gravier on wound-building ...--....--...-. 10
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Hale, Horatio, on Indian migrations..-.... 41, 42 baoticer Thomas On a Dae
on identit of the Nama Virginia EE ee eee ee ee eee ts ee hee ch 11, 19, 20
: SA y ae Jesuit Relations cited\.c..-..2..can-ccce-- 11, 21, 22
Spm RIVeres--te2 ss ws coe 46, 47 .
‘ ae z i Jones, C.C., on burial mounds ..........-.. 20
Haywood on Cherokee tradition of mounds : :
: f on burial under dwellings... -... 21
OntheOMiOnsemteeas cs sceecee. 46 c
: ; d ONStone eTavesis----wieeeseee ee 28, 29
on Indian migration............. 47 A
' t ONIPIDES sec ece cnsese viaccess 36, 42
Heckewelder, Jchn, on Indian works...... 11 r
Jones, Joseph, on Tennessee stone graves. . 26
on removal of bones
for burial. .--2c. se 20 K
on Delaware tradition R
of migration........ 43,45 | Kanawha mounds connect those of Ohio and
Herrera on mound-building................ 10 ARENNESSEE sessccce ces tical dee sete eee 47,48
Historical reminiscences of Summit Kent, M. B.,on Sac and Fox mortuary use
County, Ohio, L. V. Bierce, cited ........ 12 ofifireccscenwcace cosaee pede oe teen 22
INDEX. 53
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Kaskaskia origin of certain stone graves North Carolina, Cherokees mound-builders
MEODAD CO enseaeiniasiiseccisciecmeeewclesisciesies 29 ADs rec orate oreo renee 7
Kickapoo origin of stone graves doubtful... 29 burial mounds in ......-.. 20, 21
Notes on Virginia, Thomas Jefferson,
L. Cited er noe cae ee tenet mene cance 10, 11,19
Hafitad.on burial mounds ........-..-.<..--. 12,21 O.
La Harpe on mound-building -......---...- 10,11 | Ohio, mounds in, built by Indians ......... 7,8
on house-building .....--...----. 17 burialimoundsrnnss.-cressece-cccese. 21
Lake Pepin, ancient earthworks near...... 11 atone eravosin 2-62 eee 28
La Petit on Natchez burial mounds.......-. 11 Councilhousermonndiness eee 3
Lawson on Indian burial................--. 21 Pipestingseecc Ae eee 39, 40, 42
on shell ornament ......----------- 34 and Illinois mound-builders, identity
League of the Iroquois, Lewis H. Morgan, Ofer ee ne es 49, 50
Cited -..-. ++. e ee veer e eee ee eee eee tenes 39 | Ornaments, similar among Indians and
Lederer on Indian migrations.......-...... 41 mound -buildersts. 6 hee ee 99
Lewis and Clarke on Indian earthworks... 12 Osage burial mounds...........-..eee pets 2
Loskiel cited on native pottery ............ 23 4 i
M. Palmer, Edward, on house mounds ........ 16
Pawnee clay and reed houses .............. 17
McAdanns, William, on identity of Ohio and Peck, J. M., on native pottery............. 26
Tlinois mound-builders ................-- 49, 50 Pennsylvania, stone graves in .........---- 27, 28
Mahoning River, stone graves on the...... 27,28 | Peoria, Ill., copper plate found near......- 30
Maryland, Shawnee settlements in......-.. 27 | Pickett on Choctaw mortuary use of fire.. 22
Massachusetts, pipes in...---.......--.---- 39 | Pipes, modern Cherokee stone, inmound.. 33
Mexicans and Central Americans not In- inamoundsee 2 ee 33, 38-43
dians......------- +++ --- see seeeeee reese eee 41 | Pottawatomie and Chippeway burial
Michigan, mounds in ......---.---.-.-.-..- 13 MOUNUS!ss dacs secceeee ese cane seeee eee 13
Middleton, J. D., observed burial mounds . 20 | Pottery, Indian and mound-builder, similar 23
Moora tions; in Wanxaec-sca-sc-cccccence © 41-50 salt-keitlomeee oe ee 24, 26, 27
Cherokee......--....-----+---- 49 | Powell, J. W., found a copper plate in Dli-
Delaware, traditions of......-- 43 OLS See. ee a eee 30
Mississippi and Namaes Sipu of doubtful Primitive Industry, C. C. Abbott, cited 22, 39, 40
identity......-----+-----------------e0--- 45,46 | Putnam, F. W., found a copper plate in
Mississippi Valley and Gulf States, Indians TONES SOR ah eee et ae 30
EHO MOUNA-DULLGErS Of vscomaccecws csieeiccs.s 7
Missouri, remains of houses in mounds.... 15,17 R.
buriai mounds in....--.-.-.-- 20, 21,24 | Ramsey on Cherokee mounds.............. 32, 33
Monroe County, Lll., stone graves in....... 28, 29 Map Citediee ees scctece es comes 32
Morgan, Lewis H., on pipes.....-.-.--..... 39 | Rau, Charles, on native ceramic art........ 23
Mound-builders— ON SLONGSTAVESs< cecin- ce sos ee 28, 29
unlike Mexicans, €te-...... ssc. cecsce 14 OM pipeset se eee ee eee 39
and Indians similar— Read, M. C., on council-house mound ...... 33
socially .......-----.--.-------- +--+ 18 | Romans, Barnard, 6n mound burial ..... 12, 21, 22
in burial customs .....--..... 18, 19, 22,23 | Royce, C. C., on Stone graves......-..-.--- 27
AMUSE OL 8 LOU = em aicleje «eiels/= aa close slate 22, 23 on Shawnee locations ........ 2
AME OLLOLY Aeeminasscer cociee eee eee ces 22, 23
Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Histor- 8.
ically Considered, Lucien Carr, cited..... 9,33 | Sac and Fox moundS.ceccec cece ccccccccccee 13
mortuary use of fire.......... 24,27
NG Saint Genevieve, salt-kettle pottery at. ... 24,27
Salt-kettle! pottery. \-c2-+sceeec oe ceeeeee O4, 26, 27
Namaes Sipu of doubtful identity with Schooleraft, H. R., on Pawnee houses...-... 17
IMISSISSIPPlaeais-ceseses cet cce cciense ca scece 45, 46 on Shawnee stone graves 26
Nanticokes removed hones of the dead .... 20 | Sellers, George E., found primitive pottery
Natural History of Florida, Barnard Ro- AMV in Oi gee o st saewisisecweenccoteeecinns 26
MANS #CUtOM ee. cewe soscicise ooee ene ee sieve cine 21,22 | Senex, John, map of North America, cited 28
New York, ancient works in, of Indian ori- Shawnee salt-kettle pottery............. 24, 26, 27
fib a so GENO BO Sa BEBE SOOESOCHDE 18 settlements in Maryland ......... 27
Durialimoundsin) cscs. sces- cee 20 SLONGR ST AV OS som amia(-ooaicceoescem oe 50
pipesfinbeses seers eos 427e ShawneesanyOhioseercesseeeeereeeee seers 28
Nicksaw, a Wyandotte, buried under a _ distinct from Cherokees.......-. 43
mound -...c.< Seleleteatsmininiateliee Gina ciate sone 12 | Shawneetown, Ill., Indian salt works at.... 24
NOR ONIN OTNGD Gocq6 ossnodseaseabeaHSsoe 17,20 | Shea's Early French Voyages cited ........ 10
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