CARR ON THE CRANIA 



This similarity in language, appearance and customs, justifies the treatment of the collec- 

 tion of crania under consideration as a whole, even if a line of demarcation could be 

 established among them by which it would be possible to assign any special form of skull 

 to a particular tribe ; but this cannot be done. The number of crajaia from any given 



Table I. 



Crania of New England Indians. Males. 



place is too small to enable us to set up a standard by which to judge the others, and even 

 if it were not so, the historical evidence of admixture between the different tribes is too 

 plain to admit of any sweeping generalizations. Indeed, if we bear in mind the roving 



^In thuse measurements the metric system is used, capacity being given in cubic centimeters, and length etc., in millimeters. 



