. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Phi-losophical Society. The forehead is low, but not very receding; the face projects, and thewhole cranium is extremely unequal in its lateral portions. I had almost omitted theremark, that this irregularity of form is common in and peculiar to American crania. Let us now track the American type into the Barbarous races. Among the Iroquois andsome other tribes of both North and South America, he
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Phi-losophical Society. The forehead is low, but not very receding; the face projects, and thewhole cranium is extremely unequal in its lateral portions. I had almost omitted theremark, that this irregularity of form is common in and peculiar to American crania. Let us now track the American type into the Barbarous races. Among the Iroquois andsome other tribes of both North and South America, heads of more elongated form areoccasionally met with; but the type truly characteristic predominates largely among theCreeks—under which appellation were embraced most of the tribes of Alabama, Georgiaand Florida. Having personally examined many of these nations, I can vouch for this Prof. Agassiz was in Mobile last spring, I took occasion to point out this cranial uni-formity ; and his critical eye detected no exception in at least 100 living Choctaw Indianswhom we examined together in and around the city. The modern Creek chief [suj>ra, ] affords satisfactory Seminole (Creek Tribe) and Dacota (Sioux). Fig. 316. Seminole war- Fig. 315.™ ^-—v ri°r (Fig. 315) slain at the bat-tle of St. Jo-sephs, 30 milesbelow St. Au-gustine, in June,1836, by CaptJustin Dimmick,U. S. di-ameter, 7-3 in.;parietal, 5-9;frontal, 4-6; ver-tical, 5-8. In-ternal capacity,Vertical View. 93 cubic inches. Fig. 318 is theFig. bead of a Sioux warrior; verycharacteristic ofhis tribe. Longi-tudinal diameter6-7 inches; pa-rietal, 5-7 ; fron-tal, 4-2; vertical,5-4. Internal ca-pacity, 85 cubicinches. Reference tothe Crania Ame-ricana will shovi Seminole—Back View. Dacota—Profile View. that examples might be greatlymultiplied, to prove that our Indian aborigines are everywhere comprehended under onegroup. I have already spoken of the ancien
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