HRDLICKA | 
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 
XXXIX. MUNSEE: HUMERI 
OF THE LENAPE 
53 
MALES 
Right Left 
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motors at Diameters at 
batiieacs ot Beneth, ae ofshatt Number of adult Length, AAA: of shatt 
eee (bx 100) humeri ae (bX 100) 
mum | Major | Minor | a mull | Major | Minor | a 
(a) (b) (a) (0) 
Average: cm. cm. cm. Average: cm. em. cm. 
Paired (13)---| 32.5 2. 24 1. 65 73.6 Paired (13)..| 32.6 2.2 1. 64 74.6 
Total present T otal pre- 
(@4).2-. 56552 32.5 2. 25 1.65 73.4 sent (13) ..- 32.6 2.2 1. 64 74. 6 
Minimum: Minimum: 
Total present T otal pre- 
(eB esceeoae 31.1 1.9 1.5 65. 2 sent (13)-.-- 31.— 1. 85 1.4 65. 2 
Maximum: Maximum: 
Total present Total pre- 
(Ge) eae oee 34.4 2.6 1.85 81.6 sent (13)... 34. 7 2. 55 1.95 Bi.4 
FEMALES 
Average: Average: 
Paired (12)...] 30.6 2.09 1. 43 68. 4 Paired (12)..]| 30.2 2.01 1.4 69. 8 
Total present Total pre- 
(Us) SAR ae 30.7 2.08 1.41 67.7 sent (12)... 30. 2 2. O1 L4 69. 8 
Minimum: Minimum: 
Total present Total pre- 
(Gb) Bae oeep 28. 5 1.9 1,2 61.9 sent (12) --- 28.5 1.75 1. 25 63. 6 
Maximum: Maximum: 
Total present Total pre- 
(5) as. <= 32.3 2.3 17 77.3 sent (12) ... 31.9 2.2 1.7 tilae 
* Diameter major—parallel to the flat anterior surface; diameter minor=at a right angle to the pre- 
ceding. 
The averages are in no way exceptional. 
> 
Reference to the writer’s 
report on the Indian skeletal remains from Arkansas and Louisiana! 
will show that the humeri of that collection had practically the same 
dimensions. 
The relation of the average of paired female humeri to that of 
paired male humeri is as 94.2 to 100, which is somewhat higher than 
existed among the Arkansas and Louisiana Indians (91.34 for 86. 
humeri), among Indians in general (91.2 for 602 humeri), and also 
among whites (91.8 for 2,700 humeri), but is lower than in the 
American negro (94.6 for 164 humeri). As no error in the sexual 
identification entered into the present series, the disparity here shown 
is difficult to explain, except perhaps by the result of some peculiar 
local occupational differences in the two sexes or a local hereditary 
multiplication of an individual peculiarity. 
1 Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., xtv, 1909, pp. 211-212. 
