HKDLICKA— CHIPPEWA ANTHROPOLOGY 



Even thus, however, the tribe does not occupy the place expected 

 among the Algonquians. As shown in the writer's recent publication 

 on Eastern crania, 1 the Algonquians were generally dolichocephalic, 

 especially in the Northeastern states, somewhere in which, according 

 -to Chippewa tradition, was their old home. If this tradition is reliable, 

 then the Chippewa have modified within the last few centuries, 

 through admixture or from other causes, in the direction of greater 

 broadheadedness. 



RELATION OF THE CHIPPEWA TO OTHER NORTHERN TRIBES, IN CEPHALIC 



INDEX 



Arapaho 



Iroquois 2 



Ute 



Chippewa (full-bloods) 



Mandan and Gros Ventres 



Micmac and Abenaki 2 



Delaware 2 



Cree 2 



Blackfeet 



Sioux 



Pawnee 2 



Intertribal mixture would explain the same phenomenon, but so 

 far as known the Chippewa mixed only with the Ottawa, Potawatomi, 

 some Fox Indians, and some Sioux, none of which tribes are brachy- 

 cephalic. 



The Height Indexes. — The relative value of the height of the head 

 in any given group can be expressed by the old-fashioned height- 

 length and height-breadth indexes, or by an index which to the writer 

 seems more logical and satisfactory, obtained by comparing the height 

 not with either length or breadth of the skull, dimensions which are 

 closely compensatory to each other, but with the mean of the two. 

 This relation for brevity may be called simply "the mean height 

 index" of the head. 3 



To avoid misunderstanding, it should be stated that the height 

 taken by the author throughout his work among the Indians as well 

 as among other races, is that from the base-line of the auditory canals 





Corresponding 



,IVING 



Skulls 





(Estimated) 



78.6 



76.6 



79-3 



77-3 



79-5 



77-5 



79.6 



77.6 



79.6 



77.6 



79.8 



77-8 



79.8 



77.8 



79.8 



77.8 



79.8 



77.8 



79-8 



77.8 



80.0 



78.0 



1 A Hrdlicka, Physical Anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the Eastern Indians in 

 General, Bull. 62, B. A. E., Washington, 1916, pp. 11-130; also Contributions from the Museum of 

 the American Indian, Heye Foundation, vol. Ill, 1916. 



2 Series doubtless includes a considerable number of mixed-bloods. 



3 For data on related index in the skull, see Physical Anthropology of the Lenape, etc., op. cit., 

 pp. 116-117. 



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