Chapter LXXXIX: Munsee: Internal Cuneiform

MALES
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Right
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Number of | Height, | |Breadth-
specimens |maximum[112]|Breadth[113]| height
| | | index
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Average: | _cm._ | _cm._ |
Pairs (8) | 3.2 | 2.27 | 70.8
All (9) | 3.17 | 2.24 | 70.7
Minimum (all) (9) | 2.9 | 2.05 | 66.7
Maximum (all) (9) | 3.35 | 2.4 | 77.4
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Left
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Average: | | |
Pairs (8) | 3.2 | 2.29 | 71.6
All (12) | 3.17 | 2.3 | 72.7
Minimum (all) (12) | 3 | 2.15 | 65.2
Maximum (all) (12) | 3.35 | 2.55 | 79.7
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FEMALES
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Right
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Average: (11) | 2.86 | 2.11 | 73.8
| 2.86 | 2.11 | 73.8
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Minimum (11) | 2.6 | 1.95 | 68.9
Maximum (11) | 3.05 | 2.4 | 80
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Left
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Average: (11) | 2.84 | 2.06 | 72.6
(13) | 2.86 | 2.08 | 73
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Minimum (13) | 2.6 | 1.9 | 70
Maximum (13) | 3 | 2.3 | 78.6
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[112] Lower (proximal) branch of the calipers applied to the most prominent parts of the inferior surface of the bone.

[113] Breadth minimum, in middle of bone, upper branch of calipers resting on both lips of the scaphoid facet: the only practicable breadth in all specimens.

A comparison of the internal cuneiform in the Munsee and in the United States whites shows the bone in both sexes of the latter to be greater in height as well as in breadth. But, as indicated by the indexes, this bone in the whites is in general also relatively higher than in the Indians, as the result of which we have a lower index in the whites in both sexes. This reveals another interesting difference in the osteology of the two groups, which may prove to be of definite racial significance.

The relatively greater narrowness of the internal cuneiform in the female than in the male is equally well pronounced in the whites and in the Munsee, and is probably a universal characteristic.