THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES. 



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on the amount of evidence produced, adverse to opinions re-affirmed 

 under such various forms by so high an authority as Dr. Morton, 

 and adopted and made the basis of such comprehensive inductions by 

 his successors. 



TABLE III— CRANIAL MEASUREMENTS— SIX NATIONS. 





1. 1 

 Long. 

 Diam. 



2. 

 Parie. 

 Diam. 



3. 



Front 

 Diam 



4. 

 Verti. 

 Diam. 



5. 1 6. 

 Inter- Inter- 

 Mast. Mast. 

 Arch. Line. 



7. 

 Occip. 

 front. 

 Arch. 



8. 

 Do from 

 Oc.prot. 

 to root 

 of nose. 



9. 

 Horiz. 



cir- 

 cumf 

 rence. 



Mohawk 





7.8 

 7.5 

 7.8 

 6.7 

 7.2 

 7.5 

 7-1 



6. 



5.6 



5.1 



5.6 



5.3 



5.5 



5.4 



5. 



4.1 



4.2 



4.1 



4.3 



4.5 



4.2 





15.6? 





13? 



22. 



Oneida, Morton. No. 33 



5.8 

 5.4 

 5.2 

 5.5 

 5.7 

 5.3 



14.4 4.3 



14.2 4.5 



14.5 3.9 

 15. 4.4 

 15-2 4.5 



14.3 4. 



14.9 



15.5 



14. 



14.2 



15.1 



14.1 



20.8 





do No. 417 



do (Fern.) No. 607 



do No. 15 





20.8 



Huron, 





19.3 



Huron, 





19.8 



Iroquois, 



do No. 16 





20.8 



Iroquois, 



do A.N.S 





20. 









The intimate relations in language, manners, and [he traditions of 

 a common descent, between those Northern and Southern branches 

 of the Iroquois stock, render these two tables, in so far as they pre- 

 sent concurrent results, applicable as a common test of the sup- 

 posed homogeneous cranial characteristics of the aboriginal American, 

 in relation to the area of the great Lakes. Twenty-nine skulls, 

 such as the first table supplies, or thirty-six as the result of both, 

 may, perhaps, appear to be too small a number on which to base con- 

 clusions adverse to those promulgated by an observer so distinguished 

 and so persevering as Dr. Morton, and accepted by writers no less 

 worthy of esteem and deference. Still more may these data seem inade- 

 quate, when it is remembered that Dr. Morton's original observa- 

 tions and measurements embraced upwards of three hundred Amer- 

 ican skulls. But — in addition to the fact that the measurements 

 now supplied, are only the more carefully noted data which have 

 tended to confirm conclusions suggested by previous examinations, 

 in a less detailed manner, of a larger number of examples — an inves- 

 tigation of the materials which supplied the elements of earlier in- 

 ductions, will show that only in the case of the ancient " Tolfcecan" 

 tribes did Dr. Morton examine nearly so many examples ; while, in 

 relation to what he designated the " Barbarous Race," to which the 

 Northern tribes belong, even in Dr. Meigs' greatly enlarged cata- 

 logue of the Morton Collection, as augmented since his death, the 

 Seminole crania present the greatest number belonging ijQ one cribe, 

 and these only amount to sixteen. 



In contrast to the form of head of Ihe tone A<neTiea.n vace, Dr. 

 Morton appends to his Crania Americana drawings and measurements 



