Anthropometry of the Beaver, Sekani, and Carrier Indians

Card covers, 37 pages, 6.50x9.75 in - 16.5x24.5 cm, B&W plates.

Faint sticker residue on front cover. Spine bumped at head and heel. Pages lightly tanned, early pages stamped by previous owner.

National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 81, Anthropological Series No. 18. John C. Boileau Grant (1886-1973) was a Canadian anatomist who chaired anatomy departments at the Universities of Manitoba and Toronto. Grant published several volumes of anthropometric observations (measurements of human physical features) gathered from First Nations groups during his career. Here, he recounts the findings of his 1929 work amongst the Beaver people of British Columbia and Alberta, as well as data gathered by Diamond Jenness – a National Museum anthropologist – from the Sekani, Eastern Carrier, and Western Carrier Indigenous groups. Grant catalogues and describes various physical features ranging from blood type to the width of people’s heads, noting discrepancies between populations. Charts and statistics abound, and the volume includes portrait plates profiling several Indigenous individuals. Peel(3) 6006.