458 SKULLS OF AMERICAN INDIANS. App. I. 



Missouri is a " longisli head, inclining to the Swedish 

 form, occupying a position intermediate between the 

 long and short heads" (p. 20) ; a third (No. 54) has 

 " the coronal region almost round, like that of the 

 true Germanic head" (p. 19). Another specimen 

 (No. 54) " belongs to the angularly round or square- 

 headed Gothic type" (p. 19). Others, again, are 

 " brachycephalic." Among the Blackfoot Indians are 

 some skulls "decidedly dolichocephalic " (p. 17) ; but 

 in No. 1227, of a Chief (and j^robably, therefore, with 

 a more laterally expanded brain) the skull " occupies 

 an intermediate place between the long and short 

 heads" (p. 17). The skull of a Mohican also occupies 

 " a position intermediate between the long and short 

 heads, and approaches the Mongol form" (p. 20). 

 " The Ottawas of Michigan may be partly referred to 

 the arched type " (p. 22). But " No. 1007 is brachy- 

 cephalic" (ib.). Others of this tribe, Nos. 1006, 

 1008, 1009, " depart from this type and approach 

 the Swedish form. I have consequently placed them 

 in the "dolichocephalic" division" (p. 22). The 

 State of Michigan, however, was once occupied or 

 hunted over by other aboriginal tribes, the Meno- 

 minees, e. (/., " the cranial specimens of which differ 

 from each other not a little" (p. 22). 



The details of these differences are very instructive 

 as to the degree of value of the terms of cranial 

 shapes as denoting ethnological groups. Thus, after 

 pointing out those approaching or attaining the 

 " Brachycephali," Dr. Meigs writes : — " Among the 

 Miamis of Indiana we again encounter the dolicho- 

 cephalic type" (p. 22). But here also it is added 



