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the squarish or angular, rare in the whites, is not infrequent in the 
Indians. (See pl. 28, d.) 
The processus plantaris is found generally to be quite pronounced 
in the Munsee, more frequently so than in the United States whites; 
and occasionally there exists in the Indian scaphoid an additional 
tuberosity, separated from the regular one by a groove continuous 
with that situated between the processus plantaris and the tuberosity. 
Cuboid 
The cuboid bone, though so irregular, can be fairly conveniently 
measured as to its maximum length, breadth, and thickness. The 
method of taking the dimensions is explained in the next table. 
There are 19 pairs of cuboids in the Munsee material—9 male and 
10 female. Their measurements show the usual predominance of 
the male bone over the female on both sides and in all dimensions; 
as to sides, however, the differences are very small, the mean diameter 
being, in fact, equal on the right and left in both sexes. 
LXXXVII. MUNSEE: CUBOID 
MALES 
Right 
Number Module ; Thick- 
ofspec- | Length, | Breadth, | Thickness,| (mean Paes ness- 
imens |maximum* mMaximumt})maximum#?| diam- a pee length 
(pairs) eter) index 
cm cm. em. cm. 
Asverages.< = ots. oe. BF. (9) 3.77 2. 85 25 3. 04 75.7 66.5 
Minimums soc cencese alee oe eee ae 3.55 2.4 253 2. 88 70 62 
Maximus ssesececate ss |-—ems ses = 4 3 bel 5 2. 65 3.18 79.7 69.4 
Left 
Number Module Thick- 
of spec- | Length, Breadth, | Thickness,) (mean cere ness- 
imens | Maximum |} maximum | maximum | diam- anidax length 
(pairs) eter) e index 
cm. em. cm. cm. 
ANOTAPO Zs Se be eee seas (9) 3. 74 2. 85 2. 53 3.04 76.2 67.7 
MICE hoe, oe ee |e see 3. 55 2.75 2.3 2. 86 71.8 62.8 
[Ula ata eh es 6 peice Bede alt Eb, het 3.95 3 2. 65 3.13 80 74.3 
* Between the most prominent points on the superior and inferior borders of the distal or metatarsal facet 
of the bones and the point of the bone at the inferior medial angle (“caleanean process”’). 
+ Maximum breadth, with the cuboid resting on its medial surface in such position as it naturally 
assumes. This and the measurement given in the next note are obtained readily by the compas glissiére 
with broad branches. 
t Maximum thickness, with the cuboid resting on its anterior surface in such position as it naturally 
assumes. 
