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Chapter XXII: Munsee Crania: Nasal Bridge

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| 7 males | 10 females
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|Cases|Per cent|Cases|Per cent
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Medium height | 6 | 86 | 4 | 40
Submedium height| 1 | 14 | 2 | 20
Low | — | — | 4 | 40
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NASAL BONES

The chief feature of the nasal bones to which the student usually directs attention is their breadth. There is on this continent a frequency of especially narrow nasals among the Eskimo. Among the Indians, narrow nasal bones occur only exceptionally; more commonly they are rather broad, though the breadth is not excessive. In the present series we find them fairly broad in all the males and in two of the females; narrow (not excessively) in only two of the females.

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Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the eastern Indians in generalChapter XXII: Munsee Crania: Nasal Bridge

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