190 



CRANIA AMERICANA. 



send you was a female, who died at the little colony on the Neosho river near 

 Fort Gibson. This is all I can learn of her, as most of the nations of the stock 

 called Algonquin by the philologists, have an aversion to speak of their deceased 

 relatives, and shudder at the idea of calling them by name." 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Longitudinal diameter, 

 Parietal diameter, . 

 Frontal diameter, . 

 Vertical diameter, . 

 Inter-mastoid arch, . 

 Inter-mastoid line, . 

 Occipito-frontal arch, 

 Horizontal periphery. 

 Internal capacity, . 

 Capacity of the anterior chamber, 

 Capacity of the posterior chamber. 

 Capacity of the coronal region, 

 Facial angle, . . . 



7. inches. 



5.5 inches. 



4.6 inches. 



5.1 inches. 



14.4 inches. 



4.2 inches. 



14.5 inches. 

 20. inches. 

 78.5 cubic inches. 

 33. cubic inches. 



45.5 cubic inches. 

 1 6.25 cubic inches. 

 76 degrees. 



THE IROQUOIS, OR FIVE NATIONS. 



The Iroquois Confederacy consisted originally of five nations, the Mohawks^ 

 Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas. The French gave them the name of 

 Iroquois, but they called themselves Mengwe^ or Mingoes. These nations 

 constituted the eastern division of this powerful family, while to the west were 

 several other tribes of the same stock, as the Hurons, Erigas, Andastes, &c., but 

 the latter formed no part of the confederacy. In the year 1712, the Tuscaroras, 

 flying from their own hunting grounds in North Carolina, took refuge among the 

 Iroquois, and were admitted as a sixth nation.^ 



* Golden, Hist, of the Five Nations, I, p. 1. 



