Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico / by Ales Hrdlicka.

  • Alex Hrdlicka
Date:
1908
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Credit: Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico / by Ales Hrdlicka. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obstacle of a frequent lack of proper age records was met with, par- ticularly with older children, and this necessitated a division of the subjects studied into two series, one in which the age could be and the other in which it could not be accurately ascertained. The series in wliich the age was known is restricted to 54 Apache and 80 Pima children of both sexes, mostly infants, while the group in which the age was more or less uncertain embraces 392 Apache and 310 Pima, nearly all school children, ranging from the earliest school age to late adolescence. Owing to differences in the stage of development, the points of inquiry differed a little in the two series. In the first series they were height, pulse, respiration, dentition, sitting, standing, walk- ing, speaking, nursing, and food; in the second series, height, weight, principal head and face dimensions, pulse, respiration and tempera- ture, dentition, manual strength, puberty (in girls), and the appear- ance of beard. The results of the investigations follow. Children of Known Age Height.—Owing to the sensibilities of the mothers, it was not con- venient to measure the length of any of the infants under 1 year of age, and among the Apache there were difficulties even with the older children at home. The table below gives the data secured, and also similar observations on white children for purposes of comparison (those of Bowditch are on children of American parentage). Average height, in centimeters. Boys. Girls. White. Apache. Pima. White. Apache. I'ima. Age. .5? W Age. 'i Age. Age. Age. Age. to Yeors. a 1 fiO.fiO 74.18 79. f;o S.--). ,30 8ri.00 91.90 y. m.d. 1 0 11 72.0 y. TO. d. 1 8 0 77.20 Years. 1 f,9.00 y. m. d. y. TO. d. 1 0 16 1 5 14 16 0 1 10 5 1 10 5 1 11 0 2 3 0 2 5 Ifi 2 8 14 2 10 0 70.60 '' 1 .iS 77.00 fi2 f> 2.43 2 0 0 2 1 0 2 2 9 2 6 20 2 8 14 3 0 0 3 0 1 3 0 3 3 0 12 3 1 0 7.';. .50 87. (iO 8(i.80 89.30 88.70 89.07 87. .50 84.90 84.10 9(1. 30 2 2.45 78.00 83. .50 2 11 0 91.30 72. ,50 74.80 75.20 79.70 82.50 8.1.80 87.00 1 . . 90. 80 n3 3 3. 43 85.00 89.97 3 0 10 3 2 0 3 4 0 3 10 0 89.30 ''3 34 , 92.70 94.50 1 108. 00 Land ^ Daffii. 1 Stirling, ITiiiiian Pliy.siology, 4Ui ert., Philadelphia, 1892, Das VVafllsliim des Mi^liwehi-u, 2d ed., I,ei]>zig, 1902, 323.
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