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PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 
OF THE LENAPE 
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XCI. PRESENCE OF BRACHYCEPHALIC INDIVIDUALS AMONG EASTERN TRIBES 
Males Females 
Tribe or district é Brachyceph- : Brachyceph- 
Skulls als in the Skulls als in the 
examined group examined group 
Hurons of southeastern Canada...............----. 15 2 DEIR Ste oe Bee 
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TOGO REGIE Cine ea as ei plane tec as cia 7 1 | 6 | 1 
(CACC AS SRS ERER See see e eee Coenen Sone Cneee CY eee eee Ages CO ee eee 
CWO Kemer pee Sere Se eee een ae: te. i Oh | eee ale ae 18 3 
Manhattanilslands sere). : ts [oh eet See eee A 3 US eee Sear || aR ee eee Ree 
Monesisland: os ace ae sain Pe eee Eceeee Tee adaressbad Dilbecadasysceeae 
SHID UCIT SS EV LAG ea oe Sa eee ee hee 6 2 Deleon ace eee 
WA GUAS Vs See As Soe ek is OSs ba ak eee LOM Roem rseree tens 13 4 
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IND TREN ng eetee Saco CROCCO D SoC Re EEe Jae eee 6 2 CO Se epee aoece 
| LTE a Sy Sa), ES ie nana 30 4 32 4 
ANOU Re me OSeC aS age AOR Oe BOC ae Se ee Se Roe e 138 EM 145 talo: 
* 10.9 per cent. + 10.3 per cent. 
In all these cases the brachycephaly, and frequently other features 
of the skulls, were such that they could not possibly be attributable 
to a mere fluctuation of the prevalent type. 
The individuals whom such specimens represent were probably 
recent accretions by the tribes through marriage or adoption. Other 
increments of similar nature doubtless occurred in the past, and, 
blending more or less thoroughly with the tribes, modified the physi- 
cal types of these to a greater or less extent. It is evidently due to 
this influence that, as will be shown later, the more southerly tribes 
of the region under consideration—those which were nearest the 
more westerly, southwesterly, and southerly brachycephals—show a 
higher cranial index than the more northerly and purer tribes. 
The principal numerical results of the measurements derived 
from the Eastern Indian crania are given at the end of this sec- 
tion. These may be summarized briefly: The type is charac- 
terized by marked to moderate dolichocephaly in the males, and 
by moderate dolichocephaly to mesocephaly in the females; by 
medium to high vault, with occasionally a low forehead; by good 
size of the skull as a whole, and lack of unusual thickness of 
its bones; by moderately high to high face, the latter especially fre- 
quent in the males; by moderate, seldom great, breadth of face; 
by considerably varying orbital dimensions and index, with a pre- 
dominance of mesoseme forms, but reaching, even in the averages, 
from microseme to megaseme; by the frequency of moderate size in 
the nasal aperture; by variable nasal index, with a large predomi- 
17135°—Bull. 62—16——8 
