TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



Jloba Scotia institute of Science 



SESSION OF 1918-1919 



(Vol. XV, Part 1) 



A Craniometric Study of the Micmac Skull in the 

 PoviNciAL Museum of Nova Scotia. — By John 

 Cameron, M. D., D. Sc, F. R. S. E., F. R. S. C, Professor 

 of Anatomij, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N. S. 



(Read 10 March, 1919). 



The Micmac Indians are generally regarded by ethnologists 

 as a branch of the important and influential Algonquian group 

 which once held sway over a considerable area of North Amer- 

 ica. They constitute the aboriginal inhabitants of Nova 

 Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the northern portions of 

 New Brunswick, while there is evidence to indicate that they 

 even extended at one time to the neighbouring western por- 

 tion of Newfoundland, and came no doubt into intercourse 

 with the Beothuck aborigines of that island. O Jacques 

 Cartier,(") the French navigator, appears to have been the 

 first European to have cast his eyes on the Micmac Indians 

 whom he mentions as having seen on the shores of Chaleur 

 Bay, New Brunswick, in 1534. Since that time much has 

 been written on the subject of this interesting people, and an 



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