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Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the eastern Indians in general

Chapter 1: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE LENAPE OR DELAWARES, AND OF THE EASTERN INDIANS IN GENERAL
By Aleš Hrdlička
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A systematic osteological study examines skeletal material from a Munsee cemetery and additional eastern indigenous crania, recording excavation context, age and sex estimates, pathological conditions, and occurrences of artificial deformation. The report provides detailed cranial and postcranial descriptions, standardized measurements and indices, dental observations, and noted anomalies, illustrated with plates and comparative tables. Analyses address skull shape, facial proportions, limb morphology, stature relationships, and peculiar skeletal features, and an appendix compares Iroquois and closely related eastern crania. The focus is descriptive anatomy and measurable variation rather than cultural narrative.

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Title: Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the eastern Indians in general

Author: Aleš Hrdlička

Release date: November 10, 2025 [eBook #77212]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation, 1916

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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
HEYE FOUNDATION
Volume III

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE
LENAPE OR DELAWARES,
AND OF
THE EASTERN INDIANS
IN GENERAL

BY
ALEŠ HRDLIČKA

NEW YORK
THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
HEYE FOUNDATION

10 East Thirty-third Street
1916

NOTE.

This memoir, published in the series of Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, is based largely on a collection of skeletal remains recovered by an expedition of the Museum of the American Indian in the summer of 1914 in a cemetery associated with the site of an historic Munsee settlement near Montague, in the Delaware valley, northwestern New Jersey. These skeletal remains were presented to the United States National Museum by the Museum of the American Indian and therefore formed the basis of the study by Dr. Hrdlička, the results of which are herein presented. The archeological observations conducted at the Munsee site are incorporated in a paper bearing the title “Exploration of a Munsee Cemetery near Montague, New Jersey,” by George G. Heye and George H. Pepper, which forms Volume II, No. 1, of Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, to which the present memoir may be regarded as supplementary.