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bregmatic height of the head (Hrdlicka's method), yielded but an 

 average of 130 mm. for 15 adult males. However, one subject was 

 distinctly very platycephalic ; so this adversely affected the average, 

 and it should be remembered the series is small. The width of face of 

 20 adult males averaged 148 mm., a pretty good guarantee that only 

 fullbloods were measured. 



Work among the Kickapoo was confined largely to mythology and, 

 to a lesser extent, social organization. The myths were obtained prac- 



Fig. 183. — Two Mexican Kickapoos, Okla- 

 homa. ( Photograph by Michelson, 1930.) 



tically exclusively in the current syllabic script which though deficient 

 in phonetic niceties, is nevertheless very practical. And myths obtained 

 in this manner from native informants are in much better literarv style 

 than those obtained by dictation. Most of the material published pre- 

 viously by Jones (edited and translated by myself) was duplicated, 

 and a large body of new material collected. As I have mentioned pre- 

 viously (Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution 

 in 1929, p. 207), Kickapoo mythology is more northern than is Fox; 

 this season's work confirmed this. The portion of Kickapoo mythology 



