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physically to the prevailing Mongolian type of northeastern Asia 

 and on the other to the earlier American brachycephals, 7 may have 

 reached the continent before the Eskimo. However this may be, 

 their progress southward was evidently also blocked, compelling the 

 body of the enlarging tribe to remain in Alaska and northwestern 

 Canada; but along the western coast some contingents succeeded in 

 penetrating as far as California, where they left the Hupa, and to 

 Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of northern Mexico, where 

 we know them as the Apache. 



This, in brief, seems to be the story of the genesis of the American 

 Indians as derived from the present and generally acceptable anthro- 

 pological evidence. There are still many obscure spots which future 

 knowledge may illuminate. The subject calls for continued research, 

 especially in the American Northwest and in northeastern Asia. But 

 the main facts appear now to be well established. 



The peopling of America must have been one of the greatest 

 romances of man's history — even though the beings coming over were 

 no giants or dwarfs, as sometimes imagined, nor any very ancient 

 form of man, but just ordinary "Indians." 



7 See " Catalogue of Human Crania in the U. S. National Museum Collection," Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1924, LXI1I, art. 12. 



