COLLECTION OF ABORIGINAL INDIAN SKULLS EXHIBITED BY THE 

 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, 



STEWART CULIN, Active Member of the Academy. 



The forty-four skulls forming this collection represent thirty-five 

 Indian tribes of the United States, found in graves and mounds. 

 Many of these tribes are extinct. 



This collection possesses great historic interest. It forms part of the 

 celebrated collection of human skulls made by Mr. Samuel George 

 Morton, of Philadelphia, and referred to by him in his great work 

 Crania Americana. A. copy of this work is also exhibited. Some of 

 these specimens are engraved in this work. 



The interior capacity of the skulls is given in cubic inches. 



NOTE. The skulls are classified according to the language of the 

 stock to which they belong, following the system of linguistic classifica 

 tion of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



ALGOXQUIAN STOCK. 



Skull of a Lenape or Delaware Indian: Woman 40 years old. Facial angle, 76; 



cubic inches, 82. (Crania Americana, pi. 82, p. 159.) 



Skull of Menominee Indian : Woman 40 years old. Facial angle, 76 ; cubic inches, 87. 

 Skull of Miami Indian : Woman 40 years old. Facial angle, 79 ; cubic inches, 81. 

 Skull of Narragansett Indian : Woman 80 years old. Cubic inches, 84. 

 Skull of Ottigamie or Fox Indian of Wisconsin: Man 50 years old. Facial angle, 



82 ; cubic inches, 92. (Crania Americana.) 

 Skull of Nantick Indian of Nantucket. 

 Skull of Nantick Indian of Nantucket. 



Skull of an Ottawa warrior: 75 years old. Cubic inches, 89. 

 Skull of Indian of the Penobscot tribe of Maine: Man 50 years old. Facial angle, 



76; cubic inches, 80. 

 Skull of the young Pottawatomie : A warrior 20 years old, who killed Majimik, the 



chief of the Miamis, at the Wabash River, in 1841, and who, in his turn, died at 



the hands of the Miamis. 



Skull of Sac Indian : Woman 40 years old. Cubic inches, 98. 

 Shawnee ( ?) Indian of Ohio : Cubic inches, 87. 



ATHAPASKAN STOCK. 



Skull of Chippewa Indian: Man 30 years old. Facial angle, 73; cubic inches, 85. 



CHITIMACHAN STOCK. 



Skull of Chitimacha Indian of Louisiana: Man 50 years old. Facial angle, 71; 

 cubic inches, 75. (Crania Americana, pi. 19, p. 163.) 



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