74 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 62 
LIX. MUNSEE SCAPUL: COMPARISON 
- : Infra- Infra- 
Hone | arent | spina | Brenan | SSR) spinous 
MALES cm cm. cm 
IMIINSGGe ema nce ete ee cece as soe nace clare (4) 15. 2 11.2 10.6 69.5 94.2 
Southern Utah cliff-dwellers............... (18) aa 11.6 10.15 67.4 87.7 
iPima.and) PUBDIO. se sccn - se swcides< ceese act (5) 15:5 12 11.05 71 93 
Various Mexican Indians.................- (9) 15.8 12 10. 4 65. 5 86.6 
Wnidians* Perle... <5 de- ss eacsccs sas eeeee (55) 15. 83 12 10.17 64, 2 84.8 
Indians: Pert! (hivion)2asiie2 e355 2b. (17) Gal 1153 10 63.8 85.6 
United States whites (various nationali- 
GIGS) 2 co ois ok Nets tee ae aoe nee e (70) 16. 4 12. 25 10.7 65.3 87.3 
Wiites'(Eivor) =. 22: sss ccccssmeeimecs eee: (73) 16.8 12.4 10.6 63 85.5 
United States negroes..................--- (46) 16, 25 11.6 10.9 66.8 92.1 
FEMALES 
IMUIASG6 s 2/= Saco aas Sse dace noe t oaciacuior (9) 13.9 10. 4 9.9 70. 7 95.3 
Southern Utah cliff-dwellers.............-- (10) I Hey 10. 25 9.7 70.6 94,2 
Pimavand Pueblos Se eeek ee eee (5) 13.8 10. 25 9.95 | 72 97 
Various Mexican Indians.................- (12) 13.75 10. 25 9.7 70. 7 94.9 
Mexican Indians 2 (Livon) !..............- (2) BH ibe 10. 16 10. 17 77.2 100 
Indians: Peru o- sease ee eb aees teusae eens (39) 13. 78 10. 47 9.17 66.5 87.5 
Indians, Peru (ivon) 1222 222-2 2.222 ee (6) lst 10 9 67 88.4 
United States whites (various nationali- 
PICS) ooh neh ngs onicte es ictestotanalole Se s peeve (44) 14.4 10.9 9.6 66.7 88. 4 
Wihites\(Uivon) toss 255 some entteneoeaae 3 (51) (13. 5) (10. 25) (9. 1) 67.5 88.8 
United States negroes: ....--2...s..<:--*-- (18) 14.2 10. 2 9. 25 65 90.7 
1M. Livon, De l’omoplate, etc., Thése, Paris, 1879, pp. 41-42. 
2 One subject. 
3 The averages of the measurements are exceptionally small in this series. 
The above data show that the Indian scapula is on the whole some- 
what smaller than that of either the whites or the American negroes, 
except in the females, where the bone, while shorter, is slightly 
broader than that in the other two races: The Munsee scapule 
compare fairly well with those of other Indian tribes, the apparent 
differences being doubtless due in a measure to the small number of 
specimens. 
The scapular index in the Munsee is high, indicating that the short- 
ness of the bone is both absolute and relative. The different Indian 
tribes offer considerable variation in this respect, but, as will be noted, 
except in the Peruvians, the index in all is above that of the whites 
and in the majority of cases even above that of the negroes. These 
high scapular indexes in the Indian approximate those of the anthro- 
poid apes, but it remains to be determined if the phenomenon in 
the two genera is homologous. 
In the female Munsee the scapular index is perceptibly higher than 
in the males, and this characteristic, owing to a relatively greater 
breadth of this bone in the females, is common to all the other 
given groups, excepting the negro. 
