CATALOG OF HUMAN CRANIA — HRDLICKA 



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occupied by moderate to pronounced brachycephals. Only the 

 northwestern portion, and the Canal Point in the southeast, tend 

 toward narrower skulls. Such skulls characterize the Seminole, and 

 this strain, now in the southern part of Florida, originally formed a 

 part of the Creek and Muskhogean complex, whose territories ranged 

 from what is now northwestern Florida westward and northward. 

 It would seem therefore that the Seminole cranial type has influenced, 

 and that considerably, that of the northwestern parts of the State; 

 or that the prevalent Floridian cranial type influenced what may of 

 old have been a Seminole region. 



The Canal Point exception, in the southeast, may possibly be due 

 to Seminole influence, or even their burials, after the tribe moved 

 southward; it is in the Seminole territory. Similar oblong individual 

 crania are encountered also here and there along the more southern 

 parts of the west coast of Florida. 



The Seminole type itself, both in the cranial index and in other 

 respects, connects apparently with that of the southeastern Algonkins.* 

 The prevalent broader-headed and high-vaulted Floridian type con- 

 nects, in turn, with that of Georgia and reaches, irregularly, as far 

 westward at least as Mississippi. It well deserves henceforth to be 

 known as the Gulf type of the American Indian. 



THE MEAN HEIGHT INDEX 



/ i^xioo \ 



Mean oi L+By 



This very valuable index of the skull shows the following distribu- 

 tion in undeformed crania, in the Gulf States : 



state or tribe 



Males 



Crania 



Mean height 

 index 



Females 



Crania 



Mean height 

 index 



Texas, broad type... 

 Texas, narrow type . 



Florida - 



Arkansas 



Seminoles... 

 Mississippi. 



Georgia 



Tennessee... 



Alabama 



Louisiana... 

 Choctaw 



(5) 

 (9) 



(232) 



(30) 



(11) 



(3) 



m 



(10) 

 (2) 

 (17) 



' Range in the different localities. 

 « See relevant Catalog, 1927. 



83.08 

 84.74 

 87.16 

 (85. 04- 

 91.93)1 

 86.68 

 87.59 

 87.89 

 88.69 

 89.18 

 89.47 

 89.65 



(3) 



(7) 



(194) 

 (50) 



(1) 



(5) 

 (24) 



(6) 

 (15) 



(4) 



84.11 

 S2.23 

 86.60 

 (84.24- 

 88. 86) » 

 89.57 



91.19 

 87.14 

 89.54 

 89.68 

 89.15 

 88. 72 



