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nesia. It is elongated; the forehead recedent ; the face long and 

 oval J the breadth between the orbits considerable ; the alveolar 



Kanaka (572). 



margin of the superior maxillary slightly prominent ; the lower 

 jaw large and regularly rounded. The breadth and shortness of the 

 base and the peculiar flatness of the sub-occipital region give to the 

 whole head an elongated or drawn-out appearance.] 



5. 695. Kanaka of Oahu : girl of 10 years. F. A. 82^'. Dr. J. K. 

 Townsend. 



6. 1300. Kanaka, ornative of the Sandwich Islands : man, astat. 40. 

 I. C. 82. Lt. I. G. Strain, U. S. N. 1846. 



7. 1308. Head of a Kanaka or Sandwich Islander : woman? aetat. 

 30. Dr. Gibbon. 



New-Zealanders, Marquesas, Sfc. 



1. 680. New Zealand chief: tattooed. Dr. Samuel McClellan. 



2. 1324, Head of a New Zealand chief, embalmed according to the 

 custom of those Islanders. 



3. 1325. Head of a New Zealander, prepared in the same manner 

 as No. 1324. 



4. 202, New Zealand head, tattooed. From the late Dr. Harlan's 

 collection. Presented by Mr. Harlan. 



1. 1531, Marquesas skull from the village of Whytahoo, Kesolu- 

 tion Bay, in the Island of Christina, where it was obtained in 1841, 

 by Lt. H. A. Steele, U. S. N., for Dr. L. P. Bush, and by the 

 latter presented to me. F. A. 82. I. C. 90.5. The Christina 

 Islanders are cannibals. 

 [This head exhibits a narrow, dolicho-cephalic form ; the frontal re- 

 gion flat and narrow ; the posterior region broad and ponderous ; 



