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No. 53, from a mound at Circleville, Ohio, is a long-head. In general form 

 it is like the Blackfoot cranium No. 1227, but has a more prominent occiput. 



No. 1287, from a mound at Chilicothe, Ohio, very closely resembles the 

 Pocasset skull, from which, it differs by being somewhat broader. It occupies 

 a position intermediate between the long and short heads. No. 1288, found 

 in the same mound, is a long boat-shaped head with a very protuberant occipital 

 boss. 



No. 1512, from a mound in the Scioto Valley, Ohio, is a brachycephalic skull. 

 Of this cranium Dr. Morton thus wrote : " This is, perhaps, the most admirably- 

 formed head of the American race hitherto discovered. It possesses the 

 national characteristics in perfection, as seen in the elevated vertex, flattened 

 occiput, great interparietal diameter, ponderous bony structure, salient nose, 

 large jaws and broad face. It is the perfect type of Indian conformation, to 

 which the skulls of all the tribes from Cape Horn to Canada more or less ap- 

 proximate. Similar forms are common in the Peruvian tomb3, and have the 

 occiput, as in this instance, so flattened and vertical as to give the idea of 

 artificial compression ; yet this is only an exaggeration of the natural form, 

 caused by the pressure of the cradleboard in common use among the American 

 nations." 



No. 992, from a mound in Tennessee, resembles No. 1512. It is asymmetrically 

 flattened. It is a short head, with a flat wall-like occiput and a triangular crown. 

 The forehead and whole crown, indeed, are narrower than in Xo. 1512. It is just 

 such a form as we might suppose the Pocasset type would take if pressed 

 behind. 



No. 1271, from a mound near Huron river, Ohio, is a short head with an al- 

 most vertically flat occiput. No. 1272, found with the preceding, is a longer and 

 more oval head, with a more rounded occipital region. 



No. 1270, from Detroit, is a long, narrow, oval head, resembling, in general 

 form, the Arikaree skulls. 



No. 1455, from a mound in Florida, is artificially flattened in such a manner 

 as to resemble somewhat the Chinook or Charib skulls. 



No. 212, the cast of a Kenhawha skull, is a short head with a vertical 

 occiput. 



No. 1557, from the banks of the Susquehanna river, is a long, oval head 

 with prominent parietal and occipital protuberances. 



No. 215, from South Carolina, is brachycephalic. It belongs to the globular, 

 Mongolia form. No. 216 is a long head, as are also Nos. 218 and 219. 



No. 134 is a long, narrow, oval and high head, with a prominent occiput. 

 Nos. 136 and 146, from Warren county, Pennsylvania, are both dolichocephalic. 



No. 135, found on the brow of a bill about two miles below Trenton, New 

 Jersey, is a long, asymmetrical head. It is probably the skull of a Delaware 

 Indian. The supraorbital ridges are more prominent, however, than in the 

 specimens of the Delaware group. This feature is also exhibited in the frag- 

 ment, No 249, found in the same locality. 



The collection contains four Californian skulls. No. 1514 is the cranium of 

 a California Indian, from a mound near Sacramento City. It is a dolicho- 

 cephalic bead ; long and flat; the forehead narrow and low. The calvaria 

 widens out posteriorly to the parietal tubers; the most elevated part of the 

 vertex is on a line coinciding with the greatest interparietal diameter. The 

 posterior part of the parietal bones shelves down to the prominent upper 

 part of the os occipitis. The base is long and oval. The face of this skull is 

 wanting. 



No. 1565 is a fragmentary Indian skull, thickly encrusted with carbonate of 

 lime. It was found in a cave in Vallecita, Calaveras Co., California, along 

 with 300 other human crania, all embedded in limestone. It has the same 

 general appearance and conformation as the preceding skull. The occiput is, 

 however, more prominent, and the contour of the more angular crown ap- 

 proaches a lozenge-shaped oval. The calcareous incrustation extends, in some 

 places, to the depth of an eighth of an inch. 



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