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CATALOGUE OF 



21. 1271. Skull of an Indian obtained from a mound about three 

 miles from the mouth of Huron river, Ohio, by Mr. Charles W. 

 Atwater : man, setat. 60. See American Journal of Science, for 

 July, 1846. 



22. 1272. Skull of a woman, setat. 50. Found with the preceding. 



23. 1455. Skull flattened by art : man, getat. 50. I. C. 70. Taken 

 from a mound in Florida. From Dr. Isaac Hulse, U. S. N., from 

 whom I also received the following memorandum, A. D. 1849 : 



" This skull was exhumed from a mound, the apex of which is about 

 thirty feet above the ground in its vicinity. The locality is Bald- 

 win county, Alabama, near Bear Point, on the west side of the Bay 

 of Perdido, and about two or three miles north of the shore of the 

 Gulf of Mexico. Near the apex of the mound there stood a live oak 

 tree, supposed to be more than 100 years old. Near the foot of 

 this live oak the party made their excavations, and a few feet be- 

 low the surface they found the skull which I have had the happi- 

 ness to place among your collection. The skull was covered with 

 a hollow demi-sphere of pottery, composed of clay and shell, well 

 burned. Upon the convex surface were sketched two whales, rather 

 rudely, but sufficiently well to be recognizable." 



24. 1512. Aboriginal American ; a very remarkable head, found by 

 Dr. Davis and Mr. Squier in a mound in the Scioto Valley, Ohio, 

 and described and figured by them in their " Ancient Monuments 

 of the Mississippi Valley," PI. XLVII. and XLVIII. This is, per- 

 haps, 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 



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Aboriginal American (1512). 



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

 approximate. Similar forms are common in the Peruvian tombs, 



