REPORT ON SKELETAL MATERIAL FROM FEWKES 
GROUP AND GORDON SITE, BY DR. A. HRDLICKA, 
CURATOR OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNITED 
STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
The collection consists of parts of about 25 persons, the majority 
of whom are children or young. 
The whole material indicates rather a weak people, subaverage for 
Indians. 
The remains of the children and fetuses are approximately of the 
following ages: 
Catalogue Limit of variation Approximate age Locality 
316090 | Fetus___-_-_-+-- Fetus /_-2_- Circle No. 23, child’s double grave, 
west rim of house, Gordon. 
316091 | Fetusto6months_|_________-_- 0. 
316086 | 1 to 3 years_____ 2 years__+- Circle No. 3, double grave, Gordon. 
S1G092 se (Uo ek oe Be phe (ako See ane | Circle No. 17, grave K, Fewkes. 
316088 | 3 to 6 years____-_ 4 years____-_ Grave A, Fewkes. 
316089 |___-- do. lLente ay 5 years__L__ Circle No. 23, grave 1, east side of 
house, Gordon. 
316085 ; 6 to 10 years____| 6 years____- Circle No. 20, Gordon. 
316087 |2_-_- dale aP Te diyearss _ Us Circle No. 3, double grave, Gordon. 
316095 |----- doe Se 9 years__- _- McGavock site, mouth of Stones 
iver. 
316093 | 10 to 14 years___| 12 years____| Cirele No. 17, grave I, wigwam floor. 
316094 |____- dosny soak eto lone St ae Circle No. 17, grave E, Fewkes. 
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Of the adults there are only five skulls in a sufficient state of pres- 
ervation to permit of any comment. Two of these (316099, grave P, 
Gordon site, and 316103, grave C, Fewkes group), both males, are 
undeformed and show a mildly brachycephalic form, which would 
seem to indicate a connection of these people with those of the mound 
region of Ohio and parts of Kentucky. A female skull (316100, 
grave D, Fewkes group) was evidently of a different type, dolicho- 
cephalic, and may have belonged to a different tribe. The two 
remaining crania show moderate occipital flattening, and but little 
can be said about their original type. 
Of the skeletons only that of 316099, grave P, Gordon site, 
approaches in strength, but without equaling, an average male Indian. 
The skeleton 316100, grave D, Fewkes group, female, shows 
extensive pathological (posterior periostitis) involvement of bones. 
As the skull and jaws were evidently not involved, the nature of the 
pathological process is uncertain. 
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