CARR ON THE CRANIA 



This similarity in language, appearance and customs, justifies the treatment of the collec- 

 tion of crania under consideration as a whole, even if a line of demarcation could be 

 established among them by which it would be possible to assign any special form of skull 

 to a particular tribe ; but this cannot be done. The number of crania from any given 



Table I. 



Crania of New England Indians. Males. ^ 



place is too small to enable us to set up a standard by which to judge the others, and even 

 if it were not so, the historical evidence of admixture between the different tribes i s too 

 jjlain to admit. of any sweeping generalizations. Indeed, if we bear in mind the roving 



'In these measurements the meti-ie system is used, capacity being given in cubic centimeters, and length etc., in millimeters. 



