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the Buffalo Toil He was arrested in Arkansas on a charge of murder, and 

 placed under guard at Fort Gibson. He soon determined to destroy himself, and 

 succeeded by an excess of gluttony. Dr. Pitcher, to whom I am indebted for this 

 relic, adds, that " as the Osages, Omahas, Kansas, Missouris and Quapaws all speak 

 a language so nearly allied that they can severally converse with each other 

 without an interpreter, you will find this specimen a fit representation of these 

 several tribes." 



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, .... 



6.5 inches. 

 5.9 inches. 



4.6 inches. 

 5.3 inches. 



15.1 inches* 

 4.1 inches. 



13.4 inches. 



19.5 inches. 



83. cubic inches. 

 37.5 cubic inches. 

 45.5 cubic inches. 

 14.1 cubic inches. 

 77 degrees. 



"The Missouri Indians of the male sex," says Mr. Gallatin, "exceed in 

 height the ordinary average of the Europeans ; but the women are in proportion 

 shorter and thicker. The average facial angle is 78 degrees ; the transverse line 

 of the direction of the eyes is rectilinear ; the nose aquiline ; the lips thicker than 

 those of Europeans ; the cheek bones prominent but not angular. The women 

 marry very young, bear children from the age of thirteen to forty, and have 

 generally from four to six."* My measurements of eleven skulls of Missouri 

 tribes gives 77 degrees as a mean of the facial angle, which is confirmatory of that 

 stated by Mr. Gallatin. The mean internal capacity of the skull is eighty cubic 

 inches, and but one head comes up to the European average. 



* Archseolog. Amer. II, p. 130. 



