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and received that name because they subsisted principally by hunting and devoted 

 but little attention to agriculture" (p. 4). 



Bartram, in his travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, etc., Lon- 

 don, 1792, states that the Muscogulgee Avomen, " though remarkably short of stature, 

 are well formed ; they are seldom above five feet high, yet the men are of gigantic 

 stature, many of them above six feet." This description will, I believe, comprehend 

 the Muscogulges, except some bands of the Seminoles, Uches and Savaunucas 

 (p. 481). _ 



It will be thus seen that at least some of the Indians of Florida, after the 

 settlement of the Atlantic coast by Europeans, embraced the Seminoles and rem- 

 nants of tribes of Georgia which had been driven into the peninsula by conquest of 

 their lands above the Savannah River by the whites, and also that the Seminoles 

 were of the same stock with the Indians who occupied elsewhere the land between 

 the Mississippi River and the sea-coast. 



It is probable, therefore, that the skulls of the Moore series were of the same 

 stock called by Jones " Muscogee," a probability which is strengthened by the state- 

 ment of Bartram regarding the large stature of the males and the small stature of 

 the females of the Muscogee people. The most casual observer of the Moore series 

 will be struck with the disparity in the size of the male and female skulls. 



Of the skulls in the Morton collection marked " Seminole " little is known 

 beyond the fact that they were for the most part collected in Florida during or about 

 the time of the Seminole war. Some of them may be from distinct tribes which 

 had been driven South, but it is improbable that they belong to other than members 

 of the Muscogee group. That the Moore series differ notably from the skulls 

 marked Seminole is of considerable interest. But the entire number of specimens 

 examined is too small to make any broad deduction. 



In Plate IV, fig. 1, of Jones' Antiquities, etc., a skull of a Creek Indian 

 exhibits characters which closely resemble No. 1,781 and No. 1,782 of the Moore 

 series. The prominent glabella and supra-orbital ridges, the coalescent nasal bones, 

 and the high incisor crest are here present. The skull is sub-globular. 



Twelve " Seminole " skulls are available for study. 



Too 1 ? , aged 40, — cymbecephalic. 



Glabella moderate ; no supra-orbital ridge ; forehead psedomorphic ; outer part of 

 orbital arch inclined 40°. Nasal bones arched, narrow ; ascending process of maxilla 

 compressed; the frontal portion nil; maxillary portion 22 mm.; premaxillary 

 2 mm. — Nasal vestibule analophic, but with a ridge extending from spine to ascend- 

 ing limb of the premaxilla; alveolus 19 mm. high. — Hard palate hyperbolic; 

 choanse and pterygoid processes pasdomorphic. Foramen lacerum medium almost 

 obliterated ; spinous process not overlapping petroso-sphenoidal fissure. — Temporal 

 crest not interrupted at stephanion; lambdoiclal suture serrate near asterion. Malar 

 bone with small marginal process ; suture-trace present, — interval between zygomatic 



1 The sutures are unusually open, but the jaws show signs of middle life. 

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