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and 1265. They appear to be very old. The ten specimens composing this 

 whole group appear to belong to a form or type of skull differing in many re- 

 spects from those to which most of the heads already alluded to belong. 

 Nos. 40 and 115 are narrow ovals ; Nos. 118 and 418 maybe classed in the 

 same group, but they approach the arched type by being higher. They are, 

 indeed, transitionary in form to Nos. 1264 and 1265, which are still more 

 elevated in the coronal region. The form again changes in No. 1263, which is 

 shorter, has a triangular crown and a natter and broader occiput, and is 

 arranged therefore among the short heads with vertical occiputs. 



The Nanticoke head (No. 1219) is a broad, low skull, with a full rounded 

 occiput. It resembles somewhat, No. 26, the Quinnipiack or Mohegan cranium. 



The form of the Mingo skull (No. 455) is a long oval, with a broadly oval 

 crown and base, and a prominent occiput. 



The Ottawas of Michigan may be partly referred to the arched type. No. 

 1007 is brachycephalic. It is a broad, low and round head. A greater pro- 

 minence of the occipital boss in Nos. 1006, 1008 and 1009, causes these three 

 skulls to depart somewhat from this type and approach the Swedish form. I 

 have consequently placed them in the dolichocephalic division. 



The cranial specimens of the Menominees of Michigan, in the collection, differ 

 from each other in their general configuration not a little. No. 35, the cra- 

 nium of a female, resembles the Pocasset skull above referred to, a skull 

 the principal characters of which are a recedent forehead, a relatively broad 

 posterior, interparietal diameter, and a flatly-rounded occiput. No. 563, 

 also a female head, resembles No. 35, but is rather less recedent in the 

 forehead, has a broader base, and a fuller and broader occipital region. No. 

 78, a male skull, is a long head, with protuberant occiput, the protuber- 

 ance flattened vertically, and the lower and posterior parts of the parietalia 

 flattened like an inclined plane. The median longitudinal line of the crown, 

 in consequence of the more expanded forehead, approaches an oval figure. A 

 fuller forehead, less prominent occiput and higher bregmatic region gives to 

 No. 44, (a female head,) the arched form. The contour of the coronal region 

 of No. 1220 is a broad, rounded oval. The posterior region is full and rounded. 

 In No. 1222, a Menominee chief, the crown is a longer oval, the line of the 

 sagittal suture more arched, and the occipital protuberance well pronounced. 

 No. 4."p4, figured by Morton in Crania Americana, is a short, round and asym- 

 metrical head, with a fuller frontal region and a less flat occiput than we find 

 in the others. It has a Germanic crown. 



Two male Chippewa or Ojibway skulls in the collection (Nos. 683, 684,) 

 belong to the Dolichocephali. In the general form of the calvaria they re- 

 semble Swedish crania. They differ from the latter, however, in other re- 

 spects, particularly in the face, which, singularly enough, in its osteological 

 expression is very like the face of the Chinese skull. In this respect No. 684 

 (Chippewa) resembles No. 94 (Chinese) not a little. 



Among the Miamis of Indiana we again encounter the dolichocephalic type. 

 No. 542, the skull of a chief, (plate 30 of Crania Americana) is in many re- 

 spects like the German heads in the collection, especially those from Tubin- 

 gen, Frankfort, Berlin, &c. It is less full in the forehead, and more promi- 

 nent about the middle of the sagittal suture. It has the Swedish occiput. In 

 the whole series, except Nos. 541, 1055, 1058 and 1233, the outline of the 

 crown forms a more or less rounded oval. In No. 1055, a female skull, this 

 outline approaches the angular Gothic form, which is still better displayed in 

 Nos. 1058, a young child, and 1233 also a female head, and is characterized 

 by a disproportionate breadth between the parietal protuberances. No. 541 

 is a narrow, oblong head. No. 106 approaches the arched type. In all the 

 specimens the forehead is quite well developed ; and in most of them the 

 upper part of the occiput is slightly flattened. In Nos. 1058 and 1233 the flat- 

 ness is nearly vertical. 



In the two Illinois skulls the occipital region is wanting. No. 1010 evidently 



[May, 



