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[BULL. 66 
(approximately 4 feet 9 inches) high, a stature which is common 
among the majority of Indian tribes. She was of only moderate mus 
cular strength, but, so far as indicated by the bones, entirely normal. 
In type the bones, while showing as usual individual peculiarities, 
are strictly modern. It would be superfluous to go into detailed 
description of every feature, as this would be but to repeat descrip 
tions of ordinary Indian bones. There is nothing about the specimens 
that would suggest, even faintty, exceptional antiquity or variation 
in type from tjie Indian. 
The femur (pi. 8) is well built, with moderate normal curves, 
moderate linea aspera, subdued platymery (as general in Florida) 
and popliteal space concave from side to side, as in the modern bone. 
The shape of the shaft, nearly elliptic on the left, shows a slight 
approximation to the prismatic on the right, where the bone is some 
what stronger. These are ordinary features among Indians. The 
measurements of the bone at the middle of the shaft and at the 
point -where the upper flattening is most pronounced are as follows: 
Femora of Skeleton I 
Right. 
Left. 
At middle : 
Diam. antero-posterior maximum cm. . 
Diam. lateral l . . cm.. 
2.45 
2.15 
2.35 
2.2 
/diam. lat.X100\ 
87 7 
93 6 
K Vdiam. ant. -post./ 
At subtrochanteric flattening: 
Diam maximum . cm . . 
2.75 
2.8 
Diam minimum cm 
2.1 
2.1 
/diam. min.XlOO\ 
76 4 
75 
lex V diam. max. / ; 
1 Taken with the linea aspera touching the middle of the shaft of the compas glissiere between the two 
branches applied to the sides of the femur. 
Compared with the Eastern Algonquian, the Vero femora (Skeleton 
I) are slightly subaverage in their dimensions, but individually they 
could be readily duplicated. The mean index of the shaft at the 
middle is 90.7 in the Vero bones and 91.2 in the female Munsee. 1 
At the upper flattening the mean index of the Vero bone is 75.7, that 
of the Munsee 73.6. These are very close resemblances; but there 
is something of even greater importance. Among Indians in general, 
the left femur in the middle of the shaft shows a slightly lesser 
development antero-posteriorly (linea aspera) than the right, and 
it shows also a slightly more pronounced flattening in its upper part. 
The Florida femora show in both respects precisely the same con 
ditions. 
Bull. 6?, Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 03-04, 
