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THE NAUMKEAGS. 



The Naumkeags constituted one of the many subordinate tribes of the 

 Lenape nation in Massachusetts, They were governed by the Sagamore of 

 Pawtucket, and their villages occupied the site of the present town of Salem, in 

 Massachusetts. All the New England tribes are said to have been very much 

 alike. "They were tall, straight, of a red complexion, with black eyes, and 

 of a vacant look when unimpassioned." The same author adds, what is more 

 apocryphal, that they " possessed a natural understanding, sagacity and wit, equal 

 to the same attributes in other men."* Had this been the fact they would not 

 have been so easily duped, nor so speedily annihilated, by the Europeans. 



PLATE XXXHL 



NAUMKEAG. 



I received this head from Dr, A. L. Pearson, of Salem, Mass., near whose 

 residence it was exhumed, together with thirty other skulls and the corresponding 

 skeletons. They were all placed in the sitting posture a short distance below the 

 surface of the ground, but were, for the most part, in a state of decomposition. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Longitudinal diameter. 

 Parietal diameter, . 



6.9 inches, 

 5. inches. 



D WIGHT, Trav. in New England and New York, I, p. 113. 



