420 SUPPOSED PREVALENCE OP ONE CRANIAL TYPE 



But while acknowledging such approximation of the selected 

 modern Cherokee cranium to the ancient type, neither the legitimate 

 deductions following from this, nor from the other examples referred 

 to by Dr. Nott, appear to bear out his conclusions, that not only that 

 type " is found among tribes the most scattered, among the semi- 

 civilized and the barbarous, among living as well as among extinct 

 races;" but " that no foreign race has intruded itself in their midst, 

 even in the smallest appreciable degree."" The examples of Cherokee 

 heads referred to in the Table of Anatomical Measurements in the 

 Crania Americana, in so far as they fairly represent the cranial char- 

 acteristics of this tribe or nation, seem to indicate that the Mobile 

 Chief is an exceptional case ; and this is further borne out by the 

 special example selected by Dr. Morton, and figured in his great 

 work ; " The head of a Cherokee warrior who was known in the 

 army by the name of John Waring." The following are its most 

 characteristic measurements, exhibiting such a wide divergence from 

 the normal type, as illustrated in that of the Scioto Mound, as to 

 substitute contrast for comparison : — 



Longitudinal diameter 1.2 



Parietal " 5.3 



Vertical " 5.3 



Intermastoid Arch 14.1 



Horizontal circumference 19.1 



In the typical head the longitudinal, parietal, and vertical diameters 

 closely correspond; in this the excess of the longitudinal over the 

 parietal and vertical diameters is such as is rarely exceeded in the 

 modern Anglo-Saxon, or even the longer sub -Celtic head. Tet, that 

 such an excess in the longitudinal diameter did not present to the 

 experienced eye of Dr. Morton any striking deviation from the form 

 of the modern Indian head is proved by his noting of this very ex- 

 ample : " Nor is there anything remarkable in the form of the 

 skull." 



Bearing in remembrance then, the partial nature of the approxim- 

 ation so far apparent between the ancient and modern American 

 cranium ; personal observation leads me to believe that such is to be 

 found — with exceptional instances of closer affinities, and also with 

 important divergencies from the typical Indian form and character, 

 not exceptional, but pertaining to the whole nation, — among the still 

 numerous examples of the Algonquin stock, as represented by the 

 Chippeways. Of these I have examined, and compared by the eye, 

 many at widely scattered locations : on Lake Simcoe and the Georgian 

 Bay ; at Mackinaw in Lake Huron, and at Sault St. Marie ; at 



