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Table II. Classification of Aboriginal American Crania according to their Ethnic 



Forms. 



A. Pyramidal or Pyramidocephalic* Form. 



General Characters: Dolichocephalic; calvaria carinated and pyramidal; 

 face lozenge-shaped and broadest below the orbits. 



Esquimaux, Nos. 1558, 1559, 1560, 1561, 1562, 1563, 674, 675, 676, 677, 678, 

 679, 200. 



B. Oval or Ooidocephalic| Form. 



General Characters. Chiefly dolichocephalic ; vertex and base of the skull 

 more or less oval in outline. This oval generally regular, sometimes rhom- 

 boidal or angular ; sometimes loDg and narrow, sometimes rather short and 

 broad. Occipital region more or less full and prominent ; occasionally very 

 much elongated. Occipital protuberance sometimes knob-like, sometimes 

 acuminated. Posterior portion of the ossa parietalia shelving downwards and 

 backwards like an inclined plane ; a portion of this plane sometimes formed by 

 the upper half of the occipital bone. Forehead moderately well developed in 

 breadth and beighth. 



Subdivisions. 1. Cymbecephalic or boat-shaped form, in which the occiput is 

 exceedingly protuberant. 2. Narrow oval form. 3. Broad oval form. 4. 

 Barrel-shaped or cylindrical form. 5. Angularly oblong form. 6. Artificially 

 elongated form. 



I. Cymbecephalic Form. 



Minetaris, Nos. 650, 746. 

 Creek, No. 751. 

 Dacota, No. 112. 



Arickaree, No. 649. 

 Cherokee, No. 632. 

 Miamis, Nos. 1052, 



541. 

 Kootenay, No. 744. 

 Lenni-Lenape, No. 40 

 Mandan, No. 738. 

 Seminole, No. 733. 



1053, 1054, 1055, 



Pawnee, No. 1043. 

 Cayuga, No. 417. 

 Narragansett, No. 951. 

 Mound skull, No. 1288. 



II. Narroiv Oval Form. (Stenocephalic.)J 



Arickarees, Nos. 748, 949. 

 Mandans, Nos. 643, 644. 

 Cherokees, Nos. 633, 634, 635. 

 Kootenay, No. 745. 

 Naas, No. 214. 



Lenni-Lenapes,Nos. 115, 118, 418, 1264 

 1265. 



f Miamis, Nos. 1056, 1057. 



\ Iroquois, Nos. 16, 119, 989. 

 Minetaris, Nos. 747, 749. 

 Narragansetts, Nos. 950, 952, 954, 955. 

 Chocta, No. 22. 

 Lipan, No. 1346. 

 Peruvians from Pisco, Nos. 1048,1417. 



Peruvian from Lima, No. 231. 



Gentoos, No. 1555, 1556. 



Penobscot, No. 105. 



Seminoles, Nos. 727,729, 730. 



Shawnee, No. 606. 



Massasauga, No. 27. 



Upsarookas, Nos. 1228, 1229. 



Illinois, No. 1010. 



Mowhawks. Nos. 895, 896. 



Natick, No. 107. 



Shoshones, Nos. 943, 1027, 1449. 



From the Mounds, No. 1270. 



Miscellaneous, Nos. 134, 218, 219, 1557. 



f n&v, E/J&c, Ksq>aA. 



J Itivo;, Ktqxxhit. 



j; These five crania form the transition to the arched form. 



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