Note 1598 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

Morton’s latest results are given in a paper, “The physical type of the American Indian,” left unfinished, but completed by John S. Phillips, and printed in Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes, ii. He also printed An Inquiry into the distinctive characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of America (Boston, 1842; Philad., 1844); and Some Observations in the Ethnography and Archæology of the American Aborigines (N. Haven, 1846,—from the Amer. Jour. of Science, 2d ser., ii.). Cf. Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. ii. 219. Cf. Allibone’s Dictionary, ii. 1376. It is certainly evident that skull capacity is no sure measure of intelligence, and the Indian custom of misshaping the head offers some serious obstacles in the study. Cf. Nadaillac, L’Amér. préhist., 512; L. A. Gosse, Les déformations artificielles du crane (Paris, 1855); Daniel Wilson’s “Indications of Ancient Customs suggested by certain cranial forms,” in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc. (1863); Dabry de Thiersant’s Origine des indiens du Nouveau Monde, p. 12; W. F. Whitney, on “Anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of No. America,” in Peabody Mus. Rept., xviii. 434. On the difficulties of the study see Lucien Carr in Ibid. xi. 361; Flower in the Journal Anthropological Institute, May, 1885; Dawson, Fossil Men, chap. 7. Further see: Anders Retzius, on “The Present State of Ethnology in relation to the form of the human skull,” in Smithson. Rept., 1859; Waitz’s Introd. to Anthropology, Eng. transl., pp. 233, 261; Carl Vogt’s Lectures on Man (lect. 2); A. Quatrefages and E. T. Hamy, Crania Ethica (Paris, 1873-77); Nott and Gliddon, Types of Mankind; Nadaillac’s L’Amérique préhist., ch. 9, and Les premiers hommes, i. ch. 3.