Illustrations
| PLATES. | |
| PAGE. | |
| Altar-piece, Temple of the Cross, Palenque | Frontispiece. |
| Beaver Dam, Lodge and Pond, near Ishpeming | 36 |
| Chippewa Chief (West of Lake Superior) | 50 |
| Indian Mounds, Cahokia | 108 |
| Chippewa Encampment | 116 |
| Sioux Encampment | 116 |
| Spirit Rock | 118 |
| Pawnee, (Sha-to-ko) Blue-Hawk | 132 |
| Pawnee Woman | 136 |
| Prairie and Boulders, North Iowa | 142 |
| Prairie Dogs, Nebraska | 142 |
| Indian, Salt Lake Valley, Utah | 146 |
| Chiefs of the Ogallalas (Dakotas) | 174 |
| Ancient Indian Mounds near Guatemala | 190 |
| Cathedral and Square, La Antigua Guatemala | 196 |
| Quiché Indian holding the office of Alguazil | 216 |
| Barranca, Central America | 238 |
| Indian Huts | 238 |
| Indian Woman Grinding Chocolate, (Central America) | 288 |
| Palace or Monastery, Palenque (east front) | 297 |
| †Uxmal | 339 |
| †Pyramid and Temple of the Dwarf | 340 |
| †An Angle of the Casa de las Monjas | 342 |
| †Casa del Gobernador | 342 |
| †An Angle of the Casa de las Monjas | 344 |
| †Casa de las Monjas | 344 |
| Serpent Emblem, Casa de las Monjas | 350 |
| †Interior of the Casa de las Monjas and its adjoining Pyramid and Temple, Uxmal | 352 |
| †Quadrangle, Casa de las Monjas | 356 |
| Part of the Altar-piece in a Temple at Palenque | 390 |
| Mexican Cacique making an offering | 398 |
| Mexican Calendar Stone | 408 |
| MAPS AND PLANS. | |
| Lake Superior | 35 |
| Region of the Mound Builders | 54 |
| Inclosures near Newark | 66 |
| Inclosures at Marietta | 71 |
| Inclosures at Circleville | 81 |
| Fort Ancient | 88 |
| Octagonal and Circular Inclosures, Newark | 97 |
| Antilia (from Ruysch’s Map of the World, 1508) | 418 |
| Central America And Yucatan | |
| United States And Mexico | |
| ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. | |
| The Golden City passing the Seal Rocks | 177 |
| Volcan de Agua and Volcan de Fuego | 200 |
| Approach to Utatlan | 227 |
| Indian Statue, Ocosingo | 264 |
| Indian Statue, Palenque | 311 |
| Entrance to the Casa de las Monjas | 348 |
Note.—The illustration of the Serpent Emblem in the Casa de las Monjas is reproduced from a large photograph taken at Uxmal by William D. James, Esq. It will be observed that the details of the sculpture of the rattlesnake are very clearly defined.
The illustrations marked † are from a series of valuable photographs, also taken at Uxmal, by Captain Herbert Dowding, Royal Navy, who placed at my disposal such of them as I considered to be required for the purposes of this work.
I wish to call particular attention to the representation of that part of the Casa de las Monjas where the adjacent Temple of the Dwarf is seen. In comparing the structures with the pyramid, it has to be remembered that the Casa de las Monjas is placed upon a raised platform not less than seventeen feet in height. The Pyramid of the Dwarf is completely detached.
Upon an examination of the frontispiece it will be noticed that the centre stone which, when I saw it lying on the ground at Palenque, was uninjured, is there shown in two portions which are kept in position by iron clamps.
It was accidentally broken when being removed from Palenque to the museum in the City of Mexico.
The left slab, upon which is graven the smaller figure, is from a photograph of a moulding made by M. Desiré Charnay. The right slab is from a photograph of the original stone now placed in the museum at Washington, and which was represented in the Memoir upon the Palenque Tablet written by Professor Rau, and published by the Smithsonian Institution. The photographs of the right and left slabs have been reduced to the size of that of the centre, and thus an exact reproduction of the whole of the Tablet of the Cross has been obtained. The representation in the frontispiece is, approximately, upon the scale of one inch to the foot and is therefore a twelfth of the size of the original tablet when it was in its position within the temple.
The illustrations of Indians are from photographs collected by me during my travels and were selected as being typical of the respective tribes. My small sketch of the entrance to the Casa de las Monjas at Uxmal is drawn to scale, and the character of the Indian horizontal arch is delineated in its architectural proportions.
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