174 REPORT ON AN ADDITIONAL COLLECTION OF SKELETAL 
for this purpose. Fortunately there are also skulls that exhibit only slight deforma- 
tion, and a small number of wholly normal ones. These indicate, for the region 
covered, two distinct types of Indians. 
The predominating type is that of the brachycephals, known partly from the 
previous report. These people, it appears from the material last collected, ranged 
in stature from moderate to well-developed, with good though not pronounced mus- 
cular development. They were probably the people among whom prevailed, and 
who communicated to their neighbors, the intentional fronto-occipital deformation. 
The other type, less well represented, indicates Indians of stature and strength 
similar to those of the people just mentioned, but with oblong, mesocephalic to doli- 
chocephalic skulls. They were, in all probability, remnants of a relatively large 
local strain of dolichocephals mixed with the more numerous round-headed people. 
They exhibit the occipital, cradle-board head-flattening, but they practised also 
fronto-occipital compression. The physical characteristics of these people, so far as 
they can yet be isolated, approach, on one hand, those of the more northerly tribes 
of Missouri, Шіпоів, and parts of Tennessee and Kentucky, and, on the other, those 
of more westerly and southwesterly tribes, represented in northern Texas and 
especially by the oblong-headed type among the Pueblo Indians. The prevalent 
occipital flattening of the skull would point likewise to a connection with the south- 
west and the northeast. However, no great weight can be placed on this latter 
feature alone, for it represents a custom which could be communicated from one 
tribe to another, rather than a fixed, organic, hereditary condition. 
In addition to the collections referred to, there were found, on examination of 
the older gatherings from Arkansas and Louisiana in the National Museum, a few 
crania which resemble very closely the sub-type of the eastern Algonquians. 
Barring the element last mentioned, the tribal mixture under consideration, in 
all its more important characteristics, is closely related to the people of Arkansas 
and Jefferson counties, Arkansas, whose skeletal remains Mr. Moore uncovered 
during his investigations of the year before. The short-headed type is doubtless 
identical in both series. 
Numerous long-bones and several of the skullsin Mr. Moore's collection of 1909 
give manifest signs of a constitutional disease, seemingly syphilis. Other specimens 
from the collection, now partly in the National Museum and partly in the Army 
Medical Museum, show osteo-arthritis, marginal exostoses, and effects of fractures 
or dislocations ; there are two tibi» with abnormal curvature, and four bones with 
lesions indicating localized suppurative processes. However, notwithstanding the 
specimens last mentioned, there appear no definite signs of rickets or of tuberculosis, 
and no instance occurs of bone tumor or of necrosis of bone. 
On account of the varied character of the material, the detailed report which 
follows must necessarily deal with the specimens by localities only. It gives numer- 
ous results of measurements and observation, both interesting and important, which 
have not been touched upon in the preceding remarks and which show the value of 
Mr. Moore's most recent collection. 
