IN NOVA SCOTIA. — PREST. 



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lilt being approximately correct it will show some of the points 

 on which new evidence from ISTova Scotia wonld be welcomed. 



Tribes 



Habitat 



Number 

 of sliulls 



Cranial 

 Index 



Verti- 

 cal 

 Index 



Very ancient graves.. 

 Pre-historic cemeteries 



Eskimos 



Hurons 



Iroquois 



Shell heaps 



Cave burials 



Pre-Columbian graves 

 Modern Indians 



Mound builders 



Very p.ncient 



Saugus, Mass 



S.Catalinald., Mexico 

 S. Barbara, Cal. ... 

 S. Clemen te, Cal . . 



Greenland 



Labrador 



Canada 



New York 



Deer Id., Me 



Coahuilla, Mexico. 



Trenton, N.J 



Mexico 



United States 



United States . 



I Burlington and 

 1 Trenton, N. J. 



7i 



22 



17 



Many 



Many 



Abt. 100 



2 



71.8 



71.8 



71.8 



71.2 



70.5 



71 8 



73 6 



74 



75. 3 



75 6 



75.8 



76 to 78 



77 to 82 



70.5 



m 



71 



70.3 



71 5 



75 



73 3 



74 



73.4 



73.5 



77.4 



77 to 78 



76 to 82 



82 



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Long -heads. 

 V. I. less 

 than C. I. 



V. I. greater 

 than C. I. 



V. I. equal 

 to C. I. 



Medium- 

 heads. 

 V. I. less 

 than C. I. 



Many varied 

 indices. 



1 Bushman- 

 / like skulls 



It will be seen from the foregoing table that the moimd- 

 bnilders and the Eskimo occupy extreme positions, the first 

 being pronounced round-heads, while the last are just as pro- 

 nounced long-heads. Xext to the mound builders come the 

 present Indians of the United States and Mexico; then follow 

 the historic Iroquois and Hurons and the prehistoric inhabitants 

 of the ]^ew England coast and Mexico, who seem to have some 

 affinities with the Iroquois. There is in fact much evidence to 

 show that the Algonkin invasion overran a former long-headed 

 population somewhat closely related to the Huron-Iroquois 

 race, and to which the Cherokees also belonged. Then on the 

 islands off the south coast of California we find prehistoric 

 cemeteries full of skulls of a race fully as long-headed as the 

 Eskimo. At Saugus, Mass., as w^ell as in the Florida shell- 

 heaps, skulls have been found resembling those of California. 



