WISSLER. MEASUREMENTS OF DAKOTA INDIAN CHILDREN 359 

 Table 5. — Stature and Weigld Correlations for Indian and Mixed Clnldren. 



The averages and their calculated variabilities for stature and weight 

 are presented in Tables 1 and 2. As a check on these^ we have added 

 chest measurements at exhalation, Table 3. By observation, it appeared 

 that the varial)ility was far less for this measurement than for the full 

 expanded chest, giving us a fair value for another size character. As 

 \\\\\ be observed, the cases between the ages of six and eighteen are suffi- 

 cient in number to give an average of fair certainty, but irregularities 

 must be expected. Were there more Indians, the result would be more 

 satisfactory, yet a glance at the tables shows that the regularity of 

 growth from year to year is nearly equal to that for the much larger 

 series of white children. This is conspicuous for the full blood children, 

 of whom we have many more cases than from the mixed blood. 



Perhaps the first point of interest is the relation of Indians to whites. 

 Taking the values in Table 4 as the standard stature for whites, we find 

 the following deviations : 



