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BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



TABLE rv. 



THE LUMBAR CURVE IN AMERICAN RACES. 



The skeletons examined for the preparation of this 

 paper come from the following localities : 

 I. North-west Coast Indians, 36 : 



1. Songish, seven males, seven females. 



2. Kwakiutl, seven males, ten females. 



3. Chinook, one male, four females. 

 Iroquois, two males, one female. 

 Mounds of Ohio, 22 : 



1. Oregonia, four males, two females. 



2. Fort Ancient, ten males, six females. 

 Peru, 35 : 



1. Ancon, fifteen males, fourteen females. 



2. Cuzco, four males, two females. 



II. 

 Ill, 



IV. 



The skeletons from the North-west Coast, except the 

 Chinook, were collected by Dr. Franz Boas. The 

 Chinook skeletons are from old graves on the upper 

 Columbian River, and were collected by Mr. D. Scott 

 Moncrieff. The Iroquois skeletons were collected by 

 F. M. Noe from ancient graves in New York State. All 

 of the Ohio skeletons were collected by Mr. W. K. Moore- 

 head. Those from Oregonia are from a mound on the 

 Taylor Farm, and those from Fort Ancient, from the 

 village site. The Peruvian skeletons from Ancon were 



