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It is interesting to note that in the female Munsee tibia, type 1 is 
decidedly frequent and much more common than in the males; type 
3, which is usually associated with considerably developed leg muscles, 
is absent in the females; type 4 is relatively frequent in both sexes; 
type 6 is wholly absent. 
In the next table are shown for comparison the proportions of the 
different types found by the author in different racial groups. For 
the purpose of elucidating these data, both sexes are taken together. 
It is seen that well-differentiated type 1 is most common in the In- 
dians; that type 2 is relatively scarce in the negro; type 3, most 
common in the white (laboring class), was not met with in a pro- 
nounced form in the negro; type 4 is decidedly more common in the 
Indian than in the other two races; and type 6, absent in the Indians 
and rare in the whites, is fairly frequent in the negro. These differ- 
erences show that the shape of the shaft of the tibia, as that of the 
femur, humerus, and other bones, has a considerable racial signifi- 
cance, which, as our data are increased, will doubtless become 
accentuated. 
LIV. COMPARISON OF MUNSEE AND OTHER INDIAN WITH WHITE AND NEGRO 
TIBIZ WITH REFERENCE TO SHAPE OF SHAFT AT MIDDLE* 
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Types 1 2 3 4 
Per cent | Percent | Per cent | Percent |. Per cent | Per cent | Per cent 
Munsee (all—56)............-.-- 27 12 3. 5 20 BT ee ea amc 34 
rArizansas and duouisiana s-.52t. 24/92 oseia/2 sa ei~ a = ole Beinn eine [Seems be |e coe eee) eee el 
Miscellaneous whites (1975)... _- 18 15 9 3) 5 2 45 
United States negroes (55)... .-- 20 Qala. sae bee i 7 11 45 
* Por the significance of the denominations see the note to the preceding table. 
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FIBULA 
While of secondary importance, the fibula often presents interesting 
features which make it worthy of closer attention than it usually 
receives. One of these features concerns its length on the two sides 
of the body, which, in some Indians at least, is more uniform than 
that of its companion bone, the tibia. It was found so by the writer 
in the skeletal collections from Arkansas and Louisiana mounds, and 
the feature appears again in the Munsee. The slight differences 
presented by the Munsee fibule in this particular harmonize with 
those of the tibie. 
The percental relation of the female to the male fibula averages 93.5 
(the male bone = 100), while in the tibia it was only as 91.7 to 100.! 
This anomaly is due to the unexplained relative shortness of the 
female Munsee tibiz. 
1 Taking only cases where all four bones of one body are available for measurement, we obtain 92 for the 
relation of female to male tibize and 94.6 for that of the fibulze, numbers which stand to each other very 
much as do those above given. 
