Faces of Sacajawea's People
 

Radiograph, overlaid reconstruction and completed drawing of 10-year-old boy



Radiograph, overlaid reconstruction and Karen's completed drawing of 12-year-old girl. Color is added based on the tribal portrait paintings done by frontier artist George Catlin in the 1830s.

Dr. Diane Markowitz is a dentist and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rowan University and a research associate at the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She requested Taylor’s assistance with a research project on statistical analyses of childhood dental development. Taylor used her technique of 2-D facial reconstruction to predict the faces of three children based on radiographs of skulls from the Smithsonian Institution. With the same respect and reverence she holds for crime victims, Taylor reconstructed the profile faces of the three young Native Americans. Though all three were originally believed to be of the Arikara tribe, Taylor’s results suggest that the female child might be of the Mandan tribe.

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