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LXXXIII. MUNSEE: ASTRAGALUS—Continuea 
FEMALES 
Left 
Length, Breadth, Height, Module | Breadth-| Height- 
Le : F (mean di-| length | length 
maximum | maximum | maximum |" ameter) | index sriaae 
cm em cm cm. 
Arverave. 28 soe. st ta soe eee | 5. 22 3.93 3.03 4.06 75.2 58 
Mimi 2535 ree eee 4.8 3.6 0 BY GIS See oes ee 69.9 52.8 
McERITNCIIV. See ee ei nee eee aes . 7 
4.15 aby I PR Ae ees 83. 7 61.5 
on the left in the females. As to the relative proportions, there is 
great similarity between the two sexes, as well as on the two sides of 
the body. 
The results presented in this table would not be wholly satisfactory 
without the possibility of comparing them with similar observations, 
obtained by the same methods, on the bones of the whites. Such 
comparative data, furnished in the next table, show a number of 
points of considerable interest. In the first place, as with the calca- 
neus and other parts of the skeleton, the Munsee bones are seen 
throughout to be of more moderate dimensions than the bones of the 
whites. The module in the latter is very perceptibly higher. 
There are, however, also notable differences in the relative propor- 
tions of the bones in the two races. Among the whites in both sexes 
the astragalus is relatively longer and also higher than it is among the 
Indians, as a result of which both of the indices of the bone in the 
whites are lower. The differences in this respect are too large and 
regular to be accidental. . 
LXXXIV. ASTRAGALUS IN THE MUNSEE AND IN UNITED STATES WHITES 
MALES 
A Breadth- | Height- 
: = . Length, Breadth Height 
Group Specimens SRS a z See Module length length 
Maximum | maximum | maximum EES indie 
em. cm. cm. cm, 
MuINSe0. 2 22-24 (24) 5.7 4. 28 3. 26 4,42 75.0 57.2 
United States whites (50) 6. 29 4.48 3.32 4.7 71, 2 52.8 
FEMALES 
Mrmsee-s=: Lesser | (28) 5. 2 3. 91 3 4,04 75.1 57.9 
United States whites (33) 5.75 4, 02 3.11 4, 29 69.8 54 
In the examination of the os calcis, special attention was directed 
to its facets, especially the middle and anterior, for the astragalus, 
Inspection of the corresponding facets on the astragalus shows that 
these do not harmonize fully with those of the os calcis. They are 
less differentiated and more frequently connected or fused. Thus we 
have among 60 Munsee astragali, 28, or approximately 47 per cent 
