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(approximately 4 feet 9 inches) high, a stature which is common 

 among the majority of Indian tribes. She was of only moderate mus- 

 cular strength, but, so far as indicated by the bones, entirely normal. 



In type the bones, while showing as usual individual peculiarities, 

 are strictly modern. It would be superfluous to go into detailed 

 description of every feature, as this would be but to repeat descrip- 

 tions of ordinary Indian bones. There is nothing about the specimens 

 that would suggest, even faintly, exceptional antiquity or variation 

 in type from the Indian. 



The femur (pi. 8) is well built, with moderate normal curves, 

 moderate linea aspera, subdued platymery (as general in Florida) 

 and popliteal space concave from side to side, as in the modern bone. 

 The shape of the shaft, nearly elliptic on the left, shows a slight 

 approximation to the prismatic on the right, where the bonfe is some- 

 what stronger. These are ordinary features among Indians. The 

 measurements of the bone at the middle of the shaft and at the 

 point where the upper flattening is most pronounced are as follows : 



Femora of SJicleton I 



At middle: 



Diam. antero-posterioi' maximum cm. . 



Diam. lateral ' cm. . 



^ , /diam. lat.X 100 \ 



Index ( -T^ 1 T- I 



\diam. ant. -post./ 



At subtrochanteric flattening: 



Diam. maximum cm. . 



Diam. minimum cm. 



/diam. min.XlOO^ 



Index 



\ diam. max 



100 \ 



Left. 



2.35 

 2.2 



9.J. 6 



2.8 

 2.1 



75.0 



1 Taken with the linea aspera touching the middle of the shaft of the compas glissiere between the two 

 branches applied to the sides of the femiu^. 



Compared with the Eastern Algonquian, theVero femora (Skeleton 

 I) are slightly subaverage in their dimensions, but individually they 

 could be readily duplicated. The mean index of the shaft at the 

 middle is 90.7 in the Vero bones and 91.2 in the female Munsee.^ 

 At the upper flattening the mean index of the Vero bone is 75.7, that 

 of the Munsee 73.6. These are very close resemblances; but there 

 is something of even greater importance. Among Indians in general, 

 the left femur in the middle of the shaft shows a slightly lesser 

 development antero-posteriorly (linea aspera) than the right, and 

 it shows also a slightly more pronounced flattening in its upper part. 

 The Florida femora show in both respects precisely the same con- 

 ditions. 



^Ihill 6^, Bur. Amcr. Ethn.. pp. 63-C4. 



