THE CHETIMACHES, 



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They formerly inhabited the vicinity of the Lake Barataria, but, though 

 once a warlike people, were subdued by the Europeans early in the last century; 

 for Charlevoix, writing in the year ITSa, says that the Chetimaches were nearly 

 all destroyed at that time, and that the few of the tribe then remaining were 

 slaves to the French colony. 



PLATE XIX.* 



CHETIMACHES. 



The late Dr. Justus Le Beau, of New Orleans, presented me with two 

 genuine skulls of this tribe, which were exhumed from a cemetery in the Parish 

 of St. Mary, in Louisiana, Of these heads I have figured the largest, which 

 presents a singularly massive development. The nearly vertical occiput, the great 

 height of the skull, and the size and strength of the bones of the face, are not 

 surpassed by those of any Indian cranium I have seen. The measurements are 

 as follow : 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Longitudinal diameter. 

 Parietal diameter, 

 Frontal diameter. 

 Vertical diameter, 

 Inter-mastoid arch, 

 Inter-mastoid line, 

 Occipito-frontal arch. 



6.9 inches. 



5.6 inches. 



4.2 inches. 

 5.9 inches. 



15.5 inches. 



4.3 inches. 

 14. inches. 



* In the regular order the Chetimaches should have preceded the Natchez. 



