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The above data show, first, that Texas, in both its broad and its 

 narrow cranial types so far as the evidence goes, stands apart from 

 the rest of the Gulf States — its sl<iills are of but moderate height. 



The rest of the Gidf and neighboring States stand out in this 

 important respect as a unit, characterized throughout by a relatively 

 high vault. With that of some of the Pueblos ^ it is the highest, in 

 crania of similar breadth and cranial index, on the North American 

 Continent. And we do not know as yet of such a broad high-headed 

 large human group elsewhere.^ The outstanding character may be, 

 it would seem, of a regional development. 



The size of the head in the Gulf States, with the exception seem- 

 ingly of Texas, compares well with that of tribes of similar stature 

 elsewhere on the North American Continent.^ Among the States 

 themselves the differences are moderate and doubtless partly due to 

 insufficiency of numbers, partly to differences in statute. 



The proportion of male to female module and capacity are about 

 the usual for American crania; and the females show very clearly the 

 disproportion between the module and the capacity wliich is charac- 

 teristic of the sex. 



The module and capacity in the deformed are practically the same 

 as in the imdeformed skulls, showing again that it is only the shape 

 of the vault that suffers through the deformation. 



CRANIAL MODULE AND CRANIAL CAPACITY 

 UNDEFORMED SKULLS i 



' Arranged consecutively on basis of module in males. 



s And the closely blood-related Navaho. See Catalog, 1931. 



' Relatively high skulls are found in narrow American crania, especially the Algonkin (Catalog, 1927), 

 and also in some of the Eskimo (see author's "Anthropological Survey in Alaska," 46th Ann. Rop. Bur. 

 Amer. Ethn., 1930); but those are other matters. 



* Compare data in previous catalog. 



