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Title: Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America Indians of Mexico Anthropometry Anthropometry Anthropometry Anthropometry Indians, North American Indians, North American Indianen Medische antropologie Fysiologie
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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e Pima,Southern Ute, Papago (San Xavier), and Maricopa. The conditionis quite rare among the Pueblos, who have been of sedentary habitssince ancient times. The Navaho and the Yuma men are notablylank. Among the Pima it is largely, but not exclusively, the women whogrow very stout, and similarly among the Maricopa. Among thePapago moderate obesity was noticed in some men as well as women.Among the Southern Ute the condition predominates to a markeddegree in the men. (See pis. xxn, xxiii.) The role played by food in the production of obesity among theIndians is apparently indirect. The Pima, Maricopa, and the SanXavier Papago had usually a sufficiency, if not plenty, of food, butthe Southern Ute since known have been most irregularly nourished,even now frequently suffering from want. But the men in this tribeused to be hunters. This mode of life they had to abandon on thereservation, and it is probably the change from their past active 3UREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 34 PLATE XXII
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AN OBESE SOUTHERN UTE

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