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latter the stature is still somewhat higher, the face larger, and the 

 vault of the head lower. 



The Sioux were found to be on the average even taller and stronger 

 than the Chippewa. They are also characterized by the large size 

 of the head as well as a large internal cranial capacity, equaling 

 practically that of U. S. whites. But the skull is relatively low, 

 which distinguishes it not only from the Algonciuian but also from 

 all the Plains tribes, and especially from the wdiites. 



Alks Hkdijcka. 



PRELIMIN.ARY ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF LA POINTE 

 ISLAND, WISCONSIN 



In August, 1916, on the advice of Dr. Hrdlicka, Mr. Philip Ains- 

 worth Means, honorary collaborator in archeology, U. S. National 

 Museum, visited La Pointe Island (now commonly called Madeline) 

 with the intention of conducting archeological investigations on the 

 site of the Ojibwa village on that island. The island is one of the 

 archipelago known as the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior. The 

 Chippewa have occupied it since 1490. They lived there uninterrup- 

 tedly until about 1620 when the place was deserted. In 1693 a French 

 fort and an Ojibw^a village were built on La Pointe Island and the site 

 was occupied by the tribe with one or two interruptions until the 

 nineteenth century. 



There are thus on La Pointe Island two important and dated sites 

 of occupancy by the Ojibwa, and the earlier of these sites with its 

 accompanying" cemetery dates from a period when no or but very 

 little mixture with whites existed as yet in the tribe. This makes 

 the site of the greatest importance for both the archeology and the 

 anthropology of the Ojibwa who to-day, although one of the largest 

 existing tribes, are also one of the most mixed. A careful and 

 thorovigh exploration of this earlier site is one of the most urgent 

 and promising tasks of archeology in this coimtry. 



A report on the preliminary survey of La Pointe Island by Mr. 

 Means was published by the Smithsonian Institution.' 



ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN NEW MEXICO 

 Dr. Walter Hough, of the National Museum, was detailed to the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology in June to conduct archeological in- 

 vestigations in western central New Mexico. Proceeding to Luna, 



^ Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 66, No. 14. 



