book chapter
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico
Govt. print. off. • Washington • Published In 1908 • Pages:
By: Hrdlicka, Ales.
Abstract
This is excellent physiological and medical study of the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Most of the details however, concern the Pima and the Apaches, while specific data on the Navajo are limited. For the purposes of this file, only information pertaining to the Navajo has been abstracted. Since the author was an eminent physical anthropologist as well as physician, his observations made between 1898 and 1905 are important for the light they shed on Navajo physical structure and the diseases prevalent among the tribe at the time. The subjects included in the File cover population, marriage, sterility, head shape and body-molding through the cradle-board, stature, obesity, artificial abortion, infanticide, crime, suicide, mental and physical diseases, albinism, spinal curvatures, and native medicines.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Physical Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- Analyst
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
- Field Date
- 1898-1905
- Coverage Date
- 1898-1905
- Coverage Place
- southwestern United States
- Notes
- Aleš Hrdlicka
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 08037619
- LCSH
- Navajo Indians