194 



CRANIA AMERICANA. 



Internal capacity, . 

 Capacity of the anterior chamber. 

 Capacity of the posterior chamber. 

 Capacity of the coronal region, . 

 Facial angle, . . 



92.5 cubic inches. 



36. cubic inches. 

 56.5 cubic inches, 

 18.4 cubic inches. 

 74 degrees. 



PLATE XXXVIL 



HURON. 



The Hurons call themselves Wyandots; and although of the same stock as 

 the Iroquois, the two nations were engaged in deadly and constant war with each 

 other, the Hurons espousing the French, the Iroquois the British interest. At 

 length, about the year 1650, the Hurons were nearly exterminated, and from that 

 time to the present have remained a feeble band. In all the striking traits of 

 Indian character, they were in no respect inferior to the other nations of this 

 stock. The annexed drawing was made from a skull obtained near Detroit by 

 the late Dr. Sturm, the German traveller, of whose executor I purchased it. The 

 only further information I can obtain respecting it, is the statement that it was 

 the head of a chief, who was slain in a broil with his son-in-law. It is a ponderous 

 cranium, and one of the most strongly marked in my collection. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Longitudinal diameter. 

 Parietal diameter, . 

 Frontal diameter, . 



7.2 inches. 



5.3 inches. 

 4.3 inches. 



