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.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
BULLETIN 62
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE LENAPE
OR DELAWARES, AND OF THE EASTERN
INDIANS IN GENERAL
BY
ALEŠ HRDLIČKA
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WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1916
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL WASHINGTON, D. C.,
_November 10, 1915_.
SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a
report by Dr. Aleš Hrdlička on “Physical Anthropology
of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the Eastern Indians
in General,” and to recommend its publication as a
bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Very respectfully,
F. W. HODGE, _Ethnologist-in-Charge_.
Hon. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, _Secretary_,
_Smithsonian Institution_.