Chapter XCIII: Eastern Indian Crania: Height Index123

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| MALES | FEMALES
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|Number of|Index|Number of|Index
|specimens| |specimens|
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Maine | (6) | 83 | (6) | 83.5
New Jersey (Heye collection) | (4) | 83.9| (5) | 83.2
New York | (19) | 84.4| (15) | 83.6
Southeastern Canada | (14) | 84.4| (5) | 85.7
Massachusetts | (14) | 84.6| (25) | 86.1
Rhode Island | (6) | 85.3| (5) | 86.4
New Jersey (earlier) | (6) | 86.1| (21) | 85.1
Virginia (miscellaneous) | (12) | 86.5| (7) | 85.25
Connecticut | (4) | 86.5| (4) | 85.4
Staten Island | (4) | 87.5| (3) | 84.2
Manhattan Island | (2) | 87.5| (1) |(88.4)
Long Island | (7) | 88.1| (5) | 84
Virginia (Valentine collection)| (15) | 89.8| (21) | 86.7
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[123] H × 100 + (L + B)/(2)

SIZE OF SKULL

The size of the skull of the Eastern Indian, as expressed by the cranial module, shows again a grouping of much interest, though here more than in other series, owing to the small number of specimens, the position of some of the tribes can not be regarded as definitely fixed. The Munsee, as well as other Lenape skulls, stand with those of Rhode Island at the lower end of the scale, showing the smallest heads, although the Indians of these localities were not tribes of smaller stature than most of the other Eastern Indians. The more northerly Algonquians (with the exception of those of Rhode Island) and the Iroquois, occupy a median position. In the Virginia tribes the size of the skull ranges from medium to slightly above in the more easterly, but slightly below medium in the more westerly tribes. The crania from Manhattan, Long Island, and Staten Island are again grouped and occupy the highest position in the series, showing the largest heads; but they were also among the tallest, if not the tallest, of the Eastern Indians.