50 CATALOGUE OF 



nium is nearly globular, while the forehead is broad, flat, and less 

 receding than in the Eskimo and Kamtskatkan. Without being 

 ridged or keel-like, the median line of the cranium forms a regular 

 arch, the most prominent point of which is at the junction of the 

 coronal and sagittal sutures. Behind and above the meatus, the 

 head swells out into a globe or sphere, instead of tapering away 

 postero-laterally towards the median line, as in the Eskimo crania. 

 This appearance is also well seen in the head figured by Blumen- 

 bach.* He says of it, "habitus totius cranii quasi inflatus et 

 tumidus." The eye at once detects the striking difi'erence between 

 the facial angle of this cranium and that of the Eskimo figured on 

 the next page. In the latter, the facial bones resemble a huge wedge 

 lying in front of the head proper. This appearance, it is true, is 

 somewhat dependent upon the obtuseness of the angle of the lower 

 jaw, but mainly, as will be seen, upon the prominent chin and 

 prognathous jaw. In the Kalmuck, the facial bones form a sort 

 of oblong figure, and are by no means so prominent. The face is 

 broad, flat, and square ; the superciliary ridges are massive and 

 prominent ; the orbits are large, and directed somewhat outwards ; 

 the ossa nasi are broad and rather flat, forming an obtuse 

 angle with each other ; the malar bones are large, strong, protuber- 

 ant, and roughly marked.] 



1. 1248. Laplander : man, aetat. 40. I. C. 94. ' 



2. 1250. Cast of the skull of a Lapland child two years of age. 



3. 1257. Cast of the skull of a Lapland woman. 



4. 1552. True Laplander. F. A. 83-5. 1. C. 102. 



5. 1551. Hybrid Laplander. F. A. 83. I. C. 78.75. 

 The preceding 5 skulls from Prof. Ketzius. 



1. 1558. Eskimo skull. Presented to Dr. E. K. Kane by Surgeon 

 Donnet of H. M. S. Assistance, North Baffin's Bay. Lat. 76o 30' N. 

 L C. 98. F. A. 73. 

 [The following brief resum6 of the characteristics of an Eskimo cra- 

 nium will serve as a commentary upon the accompanying flgures, 

 which represent the front and lateral views of the head above men- 

 tioned (No. 1558). The male Eskimo skull is large, long, narrow, 

 pyramidal ; greatest breadth near the base ; sagittal suture promi- 

 nent and keel-like, in consequence of the angular junction of the 



* Tab. XIV. of the Decades. 



