Anthropometry of the Cree and Saulteaux Indians in Northeastern Manitoba

Card covers, 73 pages, 6.50x9.75 in - 16.5x24.50 cm, B&W illustrations and plates.

Front cover creased at corners, bumped at top, two very small closed tears at bottom, and lightly soiled. Spine bumped at head and heel. Pages age-tanned, early pages stamped by previous owner.

National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 59, 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 1927 work amongst Cree and Saulteaux communities at Island Lake, Gods Lake, and Oxford House in Manitoba. Grant catalogues and describes various physical features ranging from hair color to the length of people’s arms. He offers ethnographic comments on Cree and Saulteaux social structure and customs to contextualize his measurements. Charts and statistics abound, and the volume includes portrait plates profiling several Indigenous individuals. Peel(3) 5334.