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 Vol. 87 Washington: 1940 No. 3076 



CATALOG OF HUMAN CRANIA IN THE UNITED STATES 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: INDIANS OF THE 

 GULF STATES 



By Ales Hrdlicka 



INTRODUCTION 



This is the fourth catalog of crania of North America and the fifth 

 of the present series.^ It covers, as far as our collections go, the Gulf 

 region and such neighboring wStates as have not been dealt with before. 

 It completes the survey of the available cranial materials north of 

 Mexico, except that since 1924, when the Alaska catalog appeared, 

 there have accumulated important and large new collections from 

 those parts which will necessitate an eventual revision of that number. 



The object of these catalogs, it may be restated here, is to furnish 

 workers in anthropology with reliable data on the main proportions of 

 the American skull of different tribes and localities. There are many 

 variants of this skull; these as yet are known but imperfectly, par- 

 ticularly abroad; and our collections have now reached such magni- 

 tudes that they can furnish much more substantial data than had 

 before been possible. 



To assure the reliability of the data, all the measurements were 

 taken personally by the author, with the same repeatedly tested 

 instruments, and with the object of the undertaking held constantly 

 in mind. 



' Catalog of human crania in the United States National Museum collections. The Eskimo, Alaska and 

 related Indians, Northeastern Asiatics. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 63, art. 12, No. 2480, 51 pp., 1924. 



Idem. The Algonkin and related Iroquois, Siouan, Caddoan, Salish and Sahaaptin, Shoshonean, and 

 Californian Indians. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 5, No. 2631, 127 pp., 1927. 



Idem. Australians, Tasmanians, South African Bushmen, Hottentots, and Negro. Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 71, art. 24, No. 2696, 140 pp., 1928. 



Idem. Pueblos, southern Utah Basket-Makers, Navaho. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 78, art. 2, No. 2345, 

 95 pp., 1931. 



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