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the plane of the horizon, he will then see that the head is in reality a long 

 one, and that the occipital region is prominent and not round. No. 1237, 

 from Illinois, is a broad, asymmetrical head, flattened behind slantingly, and 

 rather to the left. Nos. 1315, 1510, and 1511 have broad, prominent, and 

 somewhat shelving occiputs. No. 420, from the Cave at Steubenville, Ohio, 

 has a low, broad occiput, flattened on the right side. In No. 436, also from 

 the Cave-cemetery at Steubenville, the broad occiput is almost vertically 

 flattened. In Nos. 437 and 438, also from Steubenville, the occiput is low, 

 broad, and vertically flattened. The former is asymmetrical. The occiput is 

 slantingly flattened in No. 439. No. 210 is wanting in symmetry. The 

 occiput is flattened on the left side, perhaps posthumously. It appears to 

 have been originally moderately full and rounded. In No. 658 the broad occiput 

 is asymmetrically flattened to the right of the median line. No. 723, also 

 non-symmetrical, has a low, broad, and vertically flattened occiput. In No. 

 53, from a mound at Circleville, the occipital protuberance is prominent, and 

 the hind-head shelving. No. 1287, from a mound at Chillicothe, has a broad 

 occiput, slightly truncated or flattened, directly behind. No. 1288, from the 

 same place, occiput shelving and very protuberant. No. 992, from a mound 

 in Tennessee, broad, asymmetrical, and perpendicularly flattened or truncated 

 No. 1270, from Detroit, occiput shelving and protuberant. No. 1271, from 

 Ohio, occiput broad, and flattened directly behind. No. 1272, found with the 

 preceding, occiput moderately prominent. No. 1455, from a mound in Florida ; 

 a very mis-shapen skull, with a low, broad, and asymmetrically flattened 

 occiput. No. 417, Cayuga, of New York : occiput elongated and prominent. 

 No. 1041, a Cheyenne of Missouri ; occiput shelving and protuberant. No. 

 211, from Missouri ; a broad and flat head, with globular occiput. No. 987, 

 Chemesyan, from the N. W. coast of America ; occiput full and rounded. No. 

 22, young Choctaw female, of Georgia; occiput protuberant and shelving. 

 No. 39, Euchee Indian, of Florida ; occiput full and rounded. No. 212, cast 

 of a Kenahawha skull ; occiput vertically flattened. No. 27, Massasauga 

 Indian, of Peterboro', Upper Canada, and No. 455, Mingo Indian, from Ohio ; 

 occiput elongated and shelving. No. 1219 Nanticoke, (?) from the Wyoming 

 Valley ; occiput full and globular. No. 567, Naumkeag, of Massachusetts ; 

 occiput narrow and prominent. No. 33, Oneida warrior ; occiput flattened ; 

 occipital base prominent. No. 1036, Pocasset Indian ; occiput flatly rounded. 

 No. 26, Quinnipiack (Mohegan) Indian ; occiput globular. No. 1516, Seneca 

 Indian, from New York ; occiput broad and truncated, or flattened directly be- 

 hind. No. 1557, from the banks of the Susquehanna ; form of the occiput very 

 much like that of the California head (No. 1514). In Nos. 216 and 219, the 

 occiput is shelving and protuberant. The same form is seen in the Maya 

 skull (No. 990). The Araucanian skull (No. 651) has a full and rounded 

 occiput. In No. 652 the occiput is arched. In No. 654 the occipital region is 

 square and truncated, or vertically flattened, as is well shown in plate 68 

 of Crania Americana. In Nos. 655 and 656 the occiput is moderately full and 

 rounded. In No. 995 the hind-head is fuller than in the preceding, and the 

 occipital protuberance more prominent. In No. 997 the occipital boss is very 

 prominent. In No. 221 the hind-head is shelving, and the occipital protuberance 

 sharply pointed. In No. 222 the occiput is shelving and protuberant; in 

 No. 120 it is broad and flatly round. The flattened form of the occiput of No. 

 1242 is well shown in the wood-cut on p. 75 of the Catalogue. The three Charib 

 skulls in the collection have prominent and elongated occiputs. In the cast of 

 a Patagonian skull, the hind-head projects far behind the meati. The whole 

 of the occipital region is full and tumid. In many of the crania which we have 

 passed in review, the elongation of the occiput backwards is chiefly due to the 

 great prominence of the occipital boss. In the Patagonian head, this feature 

 is not present. The-hind head of the Puelche girl is rather flat. The head 

 of a Puelche, from the Rio Negro, figured by d'Orbigny, has a truncated 



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