inhabitants of the country. Mr. Gallatin* thinks the Uchees may have been the
Jlpalaches of De Soto: no tribe in Florida gave that miscreant more trouble; they
disputed every inch of ground, and kept up an untiring warfare against the
Spaniards, until the latter had left their territory. The valor of the Spaniards,
says Garcilaso de la Vega, only redoubled the courage of the Indians.f
PLATE XXVII.
UCHEE.
I received this well-characterised Indian head from my friend Dr. Z. Pitcher,
of the U. S. Army, who accompanied it with the following memorandum. “This
man spoke the English language, and played well upon the fife, from which
circumstance he was known as Bill the Fifer. He was attached to the U. S.
Army during the Creek war, and was regarded as a dauntless warrior. He died
at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, in 1833.”
MEASUREMENTS.
Longitudinal diameter,
Parietal diameter, .
Frontal diameter,
Vertical diameter, .
Inter-mastoid arch, I
Inter-mastoid line, .
Occipito-frontal arch,
Horizontal periphery,
Internal capacity,
Facial angle, .
6.8 inches.
5.4 inches.
'4.3 inches.
5.5 inches.
15. inches.
4.4 inches.
14.3 inches.
20.1 inches. .
81.5 cubic inches.
75 degrèes.
On measuring nine heads of Indians of the Creek and Seminole nations, I
find the internal capacity unusually large, being no less than 94.75 cubic inches
in the largest, and 81.5 in the smallest skull; and the mean of the series is 87.5
cubic inches, which is a near approach to the Caucasian. The mean facial angle,
however, is hut seventy-five degrees.
Mortons Cran ia Americana. PI. 27.
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