Chapter LXVIII: Comparison of the Munsee Ossa Innominata with Those

OF OTHER INDIANS AND OF WHITES—Continued

FEMALES
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| Right
+---------+--------+-------+----------
Group | | Height | |
|Specimens| maximum|Breadth|Innominate
| (pairs) |(ischio-|maximum| index
| | iliac) | |
-----------------------------+---------+--------+-------+----------
| | _cm._ | _cm._ |
Munsee | (11)| 20.1 | 14.95 | 75.6
Arkansas and Louisiana | (8)| 19.8 | 15 | 75.7
Southern Utah cliff-dwellers | (7)| 19 | 14.3 | 75.4
Southwest and Mexico | (12)| 19.1 | 14.6 | 76.6
United States whites | (20)| 20.2 | 15.73 | 77.9
-----------------------------+---------+--------+-------+----------
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| Left
+--------+-------+----------
Group | Height | |
| maximum|Breadth|Innominate
|(ischio-|maximum| index
| iliac) | |
-----------------------------+--------+-------+----------
| _cm._ | _cm._ |
Munsee | 20.1 | 14.9 | 75.1
Arkansas and Louisiana | 19.95 | 15.1 | 76.1
Southern Utah cliff-dwellers | 19.1 | 14.2 | 74.6
Southwest and Mexico | 19.2 | 14.75 | 76.8
United States whites | 20.1 | 15.7 | 78.1
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THE PELVIS AS A WHOLE

The Munsee pelves available for measurement comprise those of six males and ten females. They are free from all deformation, and present the usual sexual characteristics with regard to massiveness, the flare of the ilia, the subpubic angle, and the width of the great sciatic notch.

The articulated pelves, with a slight space left for the pubic cartilage, gave measurements shown in the table below. The male pelvis, it is seen, is somewhat larger than the female in both of its mean external dimensions, and is also somewhat higher relatively, as a result of which it shows a higher height-breadth index.