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The Western Apache: some anthropometric observations
American journal of physical anthropology • 19 • Published In 1961 • Pages: 227-236
By: Kraus, Bertram S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the summer of 1954, a survey was made at the Fort Apache Indian Reservation to determine the incidence of congenital hip dislocation, and to investigate whether or not separate breeding populations existed on the reservation. In the process of investigation, anthropometric information was collected on height, weight, head and face breadth on 626 subjects ranging in age from 1-65. These data were further broken down by affiliation with each of the three endogamous bands existing on the reservation (the breeding population), and additional inter-band comparisons made. The adult Apache data were then compared with samples from Negroid (Congo Baamba), Caucasoid (Irish) and other Mongoloid and Southwestern Indian populations. In addition, four of the anthropometric dimensions were plotted for both boys and girls from ages 1-19 and compared with similar data derived from Black and White samples in the age group 6-14 (p. 235). In the analysis of the results of this investigation, it was found that while differences did exist in serological gene frequencies between the three bands, the analysis of variances and means of the data failed to reflect these differences anthropometrically. The five measurements listed above did show differences when applied to Apache, Congo Negro, and Irish, but failed to distinguish biological affinities within a single, so-called racial stock (Mongoloid).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Anthropometry
- Genetics
- Ontogenetic data
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Western Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physical Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954 (summer)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fort Apache Reservation, east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bertram S. Kraus
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 236)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 20014728
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians