CATALOGUE OF HUMAN CRANIA — HRDLICKA 



suspicion is justified that the undeformed specimens may be extra- 

 neous. It is only where the deformations tend to be of minor grade, 

 with a fair proportion of specimens undeformed, or but so sHghtly or 

 laterally deformed that no general changes have resulted, that there 

 is a chance of a more or less satisfactory study of the series. The best 

 material of this nature is that of old Zuni, collected most carefully 

 by F. W. Hodge, of the Museum of the American Indian in New York 

 City. 



The total number of Pueblo skulls to which this report extends is 

 645. In addition, there are the data on a small but precious collection 

 of 18 Navaho skuUs. The Navaho are one of the largest, still most 

 pure-blooded (so far as white admixture is concerned), and in many 

 respects one of the most interesting tribes, living seminomadically 

 over a great portion of the pueblo region. They speak Athapascan, 

 like the Apache, but in general they neither look nor behave like the 

 latter, wherefore a light on their physical identity is particularly 

 desirable. 



The derivation, sex, and nature of the specimens is as follows: 



The skulls have been sexed with all possible care and by repeated 

 examination where doubts existed. In many cases, fortunately, the 

 determination could be controlled by the pelvis and the rest of the 

 skeleton; this appUes partictilarly to the important southern Utah 

 and the old Zuni material. All the determinations and measurements 

 for the number, except that of the cranial capacity, were made by the 



