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latter the stature is still somewhat higher, the face larger, and the 
vault of the head lower. 
The Sioux were found to be on the average even taller and stronger 
than the Chippewa. They are also characterized by the large size 
of the head as well as a large internal cranial capacity, equaling 
practically that of U. S. whites. But the skull is relatively low, 
which distinguishes it not only from the Algonquian but also from 
all the Plains tribes, and especially from the whites. 
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[ISLAND WISCONSIN 
In August, 1916, on the advice of Dr. Hrdlicka, Mr. Philip Ains- 
worth Means, honorary collaborator in archeology, U. S. National 
Museum, visited La Pointe Island (now commonly called Madeline) 
with the intention of conducting archeological investigations on the 
site of the Ojibwa village on that island. The island is one of the 
archipelago known as the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior. The 
Chippewa have occupied it since 1490. They lived there uninterrup- 
tedly until about 1620 when the place was deserted. In 1693 a French 
fort and an Ojibwa village were built on La Pointe Island and the site 
was occupied by the tribe with one or two interruptions until the 
nineteenth century. 
There are thus on La Pointe Island two important and dated sites 
of occupancy by the Ojibwa, and the earlier of these sites with its 
accompanying cemetery dates from a period when no or but very 
little mixture with whites existed as yet 1n the tribe. This makes 
the site of the greatest importance for both the archeology and the 
anthropology of the Ojibwa who to-day, although one of the largest 
existing tribes, are also one of the most mixed. A careful and 
thorough exploration of this earlier site is one of the most urgent 
and promising tasks of archeology 1n this country. 
A report on the preliminary survey of La Pointe Island by Mr. 
Means was published by the Smithsonian Institution.’ 
ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN NEW MEXICO 
Dr. Walter Hough, of the National Museum, was detailed to the 
Bureau of American Ethnology in June to conduct archeological in- 
vestigations in western central New Mexico. Proceeding to Luna, 
* Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 66, No. 14. 
