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most conspicuous was that of the old chief. I am informed 

 that this body was enveloped in furs, dressed in the usual 

 native attire, and furnished with a sort of wooden armor, 

 formerly worn by the Aleuts. The whole was placed in a 

 sort of basket, in a sitting posture, and carefully covered 

 with water-proof skins, secured by line made of sinew, either 

 braided or made into what sailors call c square sennit.' This 

 line, together with a net made of sinew, in which another of 

 the bodies was secured, was very finely made, and nearly 

 as perfect and strong as when first placed there. The mat- 

 ting, made of prepared grass, was exceedingly fine, in most 

 cases far superior in finish and delicacy to any now made in 

 the islands. One of the smaller mummies, in a triangular- 

 shaped bundle or basket, had a pattern of a Maltese cross 

 worked into a stripe of another color; this was quite fresh, 

 and the grass still retained its red and yellow tinge. The 

 largest basket had a wooden arrangement fastened with bone 

 buttons, forming a broad hoop, which served it for a base. 

 Most of the more carefully preserved specimens had been 

 once suspended in the air by handles or cords attached to 

 their envelopes. 



" The other articles found in the cave were stone knives, 

 and other implements, and a few carvings, one of which was 

 supposed by the finder to be an idol, but this is probably an 

 error. A child's boot of native make was found in the cave, 

 with the fur perfectly preserved, and in it was a little ivory 

 image of a sea-otter. A number of other bone and ivory 

 toys or trinkets were also found." 



NEW TERMS IN CRANIOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION. 



The terms "dolichocephalic" and " brachycephalic," as 

 applied to the shape of the human skull, have long been in 

 use, and are well understood; but some additional appella- 

 tions have lately been introduced which tend to give great 

 precision to the idea of the cranial form. Among these we 

 have the acrocephalic form, which has been applied to such 

 skulls as are extended in a vertical direction, and are more 

 or less cylindrical in form, instead of being acutely termi- 

 nated. For the latter character the word oxycephalic has 

 been applied by Dr. Zuckerkandel. The designation of 



