The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1897-05-11
TURNING To INDIANS.
We Are Growing More Like tho
Aboriginal American.
Foreign Anthropologists Say This Is
Fact. But American students
Enter Vigorous Pro-
test.

1t is an extraordinary question in
anthropological science which has been
propounded popularity of late. The in
iluence of environment upon the race
resident in the United States must in
the course of four centuries produce
certain marked and undeniable physic
al results. 1t is not generally acknowl-
edged by American anthropologists
that there is tendency of reversion
to The type Indigenous to the soil. But
foreign students of race, with moro
perspective, have offered interesting.
food for reflection. A writer in the
Chicago Times-IIerald, commenting on
the assertion of the French authors
that on this continent the American
white man has varied toward the In.
dian type offers supporting study
which is curiously fascinating-pos-
sibly vastly important.
First, the familiar faces of the carl
caturists' creation are called in as wit
ncsses. The Yankee and the Southron,
large and loose-limbed Of these pic
lures are types, even as the stout, full
faced John Bull is type found in an
other environment. Both American
favorites of the cartoonist have high
cheek bones, and usually excellent
straight noses. These witnesses are
not, of course, scientifically admissible.
The faces given us by the caricature-
makers are impressions, not testimony.
Scientific, however, is the study Of
fered of the Pennsylvania German
ahappy. thrifty, frugal people, who have
been subjected TO american conditions
for nearly two centuries, with very lit
tie intermiDgling with other races.
much less than the English people in
New England or in Virginia.
1t is true that the pervasiye aud be-
quilting Irish have intermarried some
what with these old Pennsylvania get
tiers, but in the main It Is q very cx-
elusive, pure-blooded palatirate stock
Data have been secured relative 10
large number of school children, and
to adult males from % to 50 years OF
age, and many copies of portraits Of
original settlers. 1t appears that stat
ure increases and that other important
CONGRATULATIONS may be made eutative.
ly, of course. The increase OF finger
reach is marked and the head measures
are important
The anthropologist places consider
able value upon certain proportions or
relations between measures" says the
student of the subject. Thus the
length of the head and the breadth of
the head, when compared, give nu-
merical expression which is called the
cephalic index. TO find it the length is
divided into the breadth and the result
multiplied by 100, A head one-half a3
wide as it is long would have an index
of so; one three-fourths as wide as
long would have an index Of Is; one q,
wide as IL was long would have m index
of 100. There is no race whose head is
normally so wide as TO have an index
of 100, or so narrow as 10 have one of
80. The higher the index, of course,
the broader and souDder the head; the
lower the index. the longer and narrow
err the head Germans generally are
round-headed. Topinard gives |
for some people of Lorraine the index |
of 1913. The average index of 100 Penn
sylvania Germans is $40, which is not I
ably less and narrower. The heads Of
our northern and eastern Indians are |
still longer and narrower. We cannot |
at present make a further comparison |
with profit. What we have already
said may prove erroneous when we
learn the actual Palatiuate type. We /
assume now that the Palatinate Ger
mans were of medium stature, ligh.
haired, blue or light eyed, round head
I'd, with a finger reach of l,043. We
ind that the Pennsylvania German