HRDLICKA ] PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE LENAPE ff} 
and a right cervical, there are six facets on the right and seven on the 
left, and all the facets on the right side are situated perceptibly higher 
than those on the opposite side of the bone; in four instances there are 
six facets on each side; in two (male no. 285,301 and female no. 285,330, 
the former with the normal number of ribs and the latter uncertain) 
the sternum shows six facets on the right and but five on the left side; 
finally, in female no. 285,310, with 24 ribs, we find but five sternal 
facets on each side—this subject, however, was not fully adult. 
These details show that there are considerable irregularities in the 
sternal facets among the Munsee, even in the presence of the normal 
number of ribs. 
The antero-posterior curvature of the Munsee sternum ranges from 
slight to moderate. The xiphoid appendix is attached to the body of 
the sternum in only one instance—a male. In one male (no. 285,314) 
the left clavicular facet is considerably larger than the right. 
Three of the male and one female sterna show on one or both sides 
attached-episternal tubercles. In three of the cases the anomaly is 
unilateral—twice left and once right—while in one of the males it is 
bilateral, but the tubercle is more pronounced on the left. 
The breadth-length index of the sternum shows considerable 
individual variation in both sexes, but on the average it is higher in 
the females, the bone in this sex being relatively shorter. 
SCAPULA 
GENERAL FEATURES 
This is one of the most interesting bones of the body, and although 
it has been reported on by a number of observers, it presents a 
variety of features that deserve further study. It is a bone which in 
all particulars shows great individual variation, but on close scrutiny 
it is found that these variations differ more or less from group to group 
and are therefore of anthropological importance, and that they are 
subject to certain laws which evidently are universal to human kind. 
In collections derived from graves, such as those of the Munsee, 
the scapule, on account of their frailness, are often damaged, so that 
relatively few specimens are available for examination. There are 
nevertheless in the Munsee collection five male and nine female 
bones in fair condition, and their study gives some satisfactory 
results. To contrast these results properly the writer presents in the 
following table data not only of the Munsee, but also those on several 
other Indian groups as well as on the whites and the United States 
negroes. 
