HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



Remarks. — In reviewing the above descriptions it will be seen that 

 the full-blood Chippewa, as mentioned before, are quite typical, ordi- 

 nary Indians, without any special attributes. The expression of their 

 face is usually kindly, their behavior cheerful and friendly, not for- 

 ward. In youth, and sometimes even in age, both men and women 

 show fine bearing, and their features are not without a native beauty, 

 which in the case of women favored the high degree of miscegena- 

 tion suffered by the tribe. The old erroneous impressions of casual 

 observers that the Indians, and especially the Indian women, age 

 early, was found to be groundless. 



MEASUREMENTS! 



The majority of the Chippewa are rather tall and well-propor- 

 tioned people; but there seem to have existed differences in stature 

 between the different bands. The tallest full-bloods were found about 

 Red lake, while the shortest appear to have been those about Nett, 

 Pelican, and Vermilion lakes. 



The height of the 59 subjects dealt with in this report is given 

 below. As the series includes many aged persons, the general averages 

 might have been expected to be slightly below what they should be ; 

 but this was found not to be the case, doubtless owing to the gen- 

 erally good physical condition of those included. Thus, the mean 

 height of the 10 youngest and the 10 oldest women is identical 

 (157.23 and 157.22 cm., respectively), and the same may be said of 

 the general average for the sex. Similar conditions exist in the male 

 series. It is interesting to note in this connection that the average 

 stature of the Chippewa measured on the occasion of the World's 

 Columbian Exposition at Chicago and reported by Boas, 2 although 

 the series must include many mixed-bloods, is practically the same as 

 that obtained by the writer, namely, 17 1.7 for the males and 157.4 

 for the females. 3 



STATURE 



Males Females 



Cm. Subects Per cent Subjects Per cent 



148.2-150 .. 3 7 



150.I-155 .. 8 20 



155.I-160 . . 20 49 



1 All measurements, unless otherwise indicated, are those of the International Agreement. 



* F. Boas, op. cit., p. 366 et seq. 



8 Most of the mixture in the tribe, as mentioned before, is French, who on the whole were 

 probably of about the same stature as the Chippewa. The opinion of Boas, expressed in the paper 

 above quoted, that mixed-bloods among the Indians tend to be of greater stature than the full- 

 bloods, is, the writer has some reason to believe, applicable only to those cases where the whites 

 responsible for the mixture were of greater average stature than the tribe into which the foreign 

 blood was introduced. 



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