Measures of men: ten specialized studies in physical anthropology in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies
By: [by] Harold Cummins, Mary Steele Lane, Stella M. Leche [and others]
Contributors: Cummins, Harold, 1893-1976.; Lane, Mary Steele.; Leche, Stella Marie Aglae, 1901-
Series: Middle American research series. Publication -- no. 7.; Publication (Tulane University. Middle American Research Institute) -- 7.
Publisher: Department of Middle American Research, Tulane University of Louisiana
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New Orleans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Anthropometry.; Indians of Central America -- Anthropometry.; Indians of the West Indies -- Anthropometry.; Fingerprints.
Notes: Bibliography at end of most of the studies.
Table of contents: value: A physical and physiological description of adult Maya Indians from Yucatan, by Morris Steggerda.; value: Methodology in palmar dermatoglyphics, by Harold Cummins.; value: Finger lengths of the Maya Indians as compared with Negroes and whites, by Morris Steggerda and Ruth Millar.; value: Finger prints in Maya Indians, by Harold Cummins and Morris Steggerda.; value: A racial study of palmar dermatoglyphics with special reference to the Maya Indians of Yucatan, by Inez D. Steggerda, Morris Steggerda and Mary S. Lane.; value: A retabulation of the palmar dermatoglyphics in Wilder's collection of Mayas with a note on the Wilder collection of dermatoglyphics, by Harold Cummins.; value: Dermatoglyphics and functional lateral dominance in Mexican Indians: II. Aztecas, by Stella M. Leche.; value: Dermatoglyphics and functional lateral dominance in Mexican Indians: III. Zapotecas and Mixtecas. Anthropometry of the Zapotecas and Mixtecas, by Stella M. Leche.; value: Dermatoglyphics and functional lateral dominance in Mexican Indians: IV. Chamulas. Anthropometry of the Chamulas by Stella M. Leche.; value: The dermatoglyphics of the Tarascan Indians of Mexico, from the collection of Dr. D.F. Rubín de la Borbolla, by Stella M. Leche.; value: Appendix: Peoples mentioned in this volume.