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this respect, and, as will be seen later, these two groups, while not 
entirely homogeneous, show many other close similarities. 
The most important result is that shown by the crania from south- 
eastern Canada, which are almost entirely Huron or Iroquois; and by 
the specimens from New York State, which also are largely of Iroquois 
derivation. The Iroquois, as is well known, are regarded as a linguis- 
tic stock distinct from the Algonquian, though there are some lexical 
resemblances in the two languages. But the measurements of the 
skulls of representatives of the two stocks show no such distinction. In 
fact, the Iroquois occupy, with reference to nearly all important cra- 
nial features, more or less of a median position among the Algonquian 
groups, and there is no basis on which they can legitimately be 
segregated as belonging to any different physical group of Indians. 
It is quite possible that some of the Iroquois tribes may have been 
derived, in smaller or larger part, from other peoples of the westward 
or the southwestward, or that in course of time they became mixed 
with such; but the greater proportion of the Iroquois can henceforth 
be no more separated in physical anthropology from the Algonquians 
than can any of the subgroups of the latter. 
Another important result of these studies relates to the Lenape. 
The Munsee and other Delaware Indian skulls, while nearing (and in 
the case of females slightly surpassing) the upper limits of dolicho- 
cephaly, are nevertheless sufficiently closely related to the crania 
from the neighboring states to show that the Munsee, and the Lenape 
as a whole, were in all probability only subdivisions of the eastern 
Algonquians. Resemblances in other important features of the skull, 
as well as of the skeleton, make this conclusion quite definite, thus 
eliminating the theory of the migration of the Lenape from beyond 
the Mississippi, for if such were the case, they could scarcely fit so 
precisely into the anthropological position they occupy between the 
neighboring tribes. Yet, as previously mentioned, there is some evi- 
dence, especially that afforded by the Munsee, that the Lenape had 
some connection, probably earlier as well as recent, with tribes living 
southwestward from the Appalachian mountains. 
From the limited Pennsylvania material it appears that the eastern 
lowlands were occupied by Indians of the Algonquian or Lenape type, 
while in the more westerly parts brachycephaly was frequent if not 
common. 
As to the Virginia Algonquians, they show the highest cranial in- 
dexes of all the groups here considered, and had doubtless considera- 
ble foreign blood, derived from the west or the south. It would be 
interesting to compare the Virginia Indians with the Siouan tribes, to 
which they seem to bear close affinity. 
