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NOTES ON THE ALGONKIN AND RELATED TRIBES 



1. The extensive Algonkin strain shows almost throughout a 

 clear and distinct physical character. 



2. The type coincides closely with the extension of the linguistic 

 family to which it belongs. 



3. The Iroquois, notwithstanding the fact that they belong to a 

 different linguistic stock and include some heterogeneous admixture 

 from the south, are radically of the same physical type with the 

 Algonkins and can not be separated from the latter . 



4. The Algonkin type is characterized by: 



Dolicho- to meso-cephaly ; 



High vault; 



Medium to large face; 



Medium to low orbits; 



Medium to relatively somewhat narrow nose. 



5. In the Atlantic States as one proceeds southward the type, 

 without interruption and without alteration in its characteristically 

 high vault, shows a rising cephalic index, without, however, reaching 

 higher than mesocephaly. 



6. A similar condition as to the cephalic index is observed among 

 some of the Algonl^in tribes west of the Alleghanies, reaching its 

 climax in the Chippewa. 



7. The Chippewa are somewhat aberrant from the rest of the 

 Algonkins in that their skull is somewhat broader and lower. 



