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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



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Comparison as to force between the Indian children and the white children of the New 



York Juvenile Asylum 



The white children of both sexes within the heights inchided are on 

 the average sUghtly superior in pressure force to the Indians of 

 similar stature and markedly superior in traction force. The height 

 groups of the somewhat retarded Juvenile Asylum children represent 

 an average age probably from one to two years greater than that of 

 the children in corresponding stature groups of the Indians, and on 

 this account the series is not satisfactory. 



Tests on older adolescents have shown the persistence in the 

 Indian of a somewhat inferior pressure force; the traction power, 

 however, increases rapidly in the Indian subjects after they have 

 been employed in physical labor and may equal that of whites of 

 similar ages or statures and occupations. " 



The differences in force between the subjects of the two tribes 

 under comparison are very clear and in the* females quite marked. 

 The Apache children on the whole seem the more vigorous ; they are 

 in all the groups superior in traction, and the females surpass the 

 Pima females in every particular. Curiously, however, the Pima 

 boys show in all the groups and in both hands a slightly greater aver- 

 age pressure. Possibly this feature has been developed by differences 

 in occupation afforded the school bovs on the two reservations. 



Force in Pima hoys contrasted with that in Apache boys, main groups 



o See the subject under Adults, p. 143. 



