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A tabulation of the more significant mean measurements of the 

 two groups is as follows : 



Norris Basin 



Kentucky 

 "Algonquins' 



Skull: 



Maximum length 



Maximum breadth- _ 

 Glabella-inion length 



Height 



Sagittal-cranial arc__ 



Circumference 



Cephalic index 



Long bones: 



Humerus 



Ulna 



Radius 



Femur 



Tibia 



Fibula 



Millimeters 

 165 

 156 

 158 

 140 

 341 

 510 

 92 



321 

 267 

 249 

 450 



378 

 362 



Millimeters 

 163 

 141 

 165 

 148 

 346 

 488 



323 

 256 

 250 

 436 

 362 

 350 



It will be seen at once from the above that the two groups agree 

 very closely indeed in all osteological measurements. The Tennes- 

 see group is more brachycephalic but this may be easily due to the 

 deformation of the skull which seems to have been practiced more 

 generally in the Tennessee area than in the various Kentucky regions 

 from which material was obtained. The Tennessee skulls are slightly 

 larger and have a lower dome. In the other parts of the skeleton 

 the mean differences are so slight as to be negligible. The Ken- 

 tucky groups seem to show a somewhat shorter leg and the stature 

 was doubtless lower, but an attempt to draw distinctions between 

 other measurements would be pedantic. In addition to the close 

 agreement in actual measurements, the bones of the two groups are 

 entirely similar in general contour, musculature, and other features. 

 We are of the opinion that the aborigines who inhabited the Norris 

 Basin are of the same stock and probably closely related to the groups 

 which are found farther north and west in the Mississippi Valley. 



It is interesting to note, also, that the material from Site No. 20 

 agrees very closely with material found in Kentucky, which has 

 been tentatively determined Iroquoian. There is considerable evi- 

 dence to show the presence of dolichocephalism in certain Iroquoian 

 groups and it may be that the long-headed individuals from Site 

 No. 20 represent such a group and that the suspected "invasion" 

 which we have conjectured was an Iroquoian invasion. 



Pathology 



The writer is greatly indebted to Dr. C. N. Kavanaugh, Dr. E. S. 

 Maxwell, and Dr. J. B. Juett, all of Lexington, Ky., for their diag- 

 noses of various pathological conditions presented in this report. 



