OH APT Re: 
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS. 
It will be convenient for me to describe the Florida Seminole as they 
present themselves, first as individuals, and next as members of a soci- 
ety. I know it is impossible to separate, really, the individual as such 
from the individual as a member of society; nevertheless, there is the 
man as we see him, having certain characteristics which we call per- 
sonal, or his own, whencesoever derived, having a certain physique and 
certain distinguishing psychical qualities. As such I will first attempt 
to describe the Seminole. Then we shall be able the better to look at 
him as he is in his relations with his fellows: in the family, in the com- 
munity, or in any of the forms of the social life of his tribe. 
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS. 
PHYSIQUE OF THE MEN. 
Physically both men and women are remarkable. The men, as arule, 
attract attention by their height, fullness and symmetry of development, 
and the regularity and agreeableness of their features. In muscular 
power and constitutional ability to endure they excel. While these qual- 
ities distinguish, with a few exceptions, the men of the whole tribe, they 
are particularly characteristic of the two most widely spread of the fam- 
ilies of which the tribe is composed. These are the Tiger and Otter clans, 
which, proud of their Jines of descent, have been preserved through a 
long and tragie past with exceptional freedom from admixture with 
degrading blood. To-day their men might be taken as types of phys- 
ica, excellence. The physique of every Tiger warrior especially I met 
would furnish proof of this statement. The Tigers are dark, copper- 
colored fellows, over six feet in height, with limbs in good proportion; 
their hands and feet well shaped and not very large; their stature erect; 
their bearing a sign of self-confident power ; their movements deliber- 
ate, persistent, strong. Their heads are large, and their foreheads full 
and marked. An almost universal characteristic of the Tiger’s face is its 
squareness, a widened and protruding underjawbone giving this effect 
to it. Of other features, I noticed that under a large forehead are deep 
set, bright, black eyes, small, but expressive of inquiry and vigilance ; 
the nose is slightly aquiline and sensitively formed about the nostrils; 
the lips are mobile, sensuous, and not very full, disclosing, when they 
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