HUMAN CRANIA. 73 



43. 215i Aboriginal eranmm from South Carolina. F. A, 75". 

 From Dr. R. W. Gibbs, of Columbia, S. C, November, 1853. 



44. 216. Indian cranium from Gambel's Western collection. Pre- 

 sented by Dr. Wilson. 



45. 217. Fragment of cranium from the Grave Creek mound. 



46. 218. Fragments of cranium from a mound, with a portion of the 

 OS femoris. 



47- 219. Fragment of cranium from Tippecanoe battle-ground. Pre- 

 sented by Mr. L. H. Sands. 



48. 220. Cast of the skull of an Indian named Walk-in-the-water, 

 Presented by Mr. Harlan. 



I. CENTRAL AMERICANS. 



{Case 8.) 



1- 990, Maya Indian of Yucatan : man, aetat. 50. I.C. 91. Cheva- 

 lier Friedrichthal, of Vienna. 



2. 1050. Fragments of the skull and other parts of the skeleton of a 

 young aboriginal female, taken from an ancient tomb at Ticul, a 

 ruined city near San Francisco, in Yucatan, A. D. 1842. From J. 

 L. Stevens, Esq. Vide Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, vol. i. 



3. 1067. Fragments of cranial and other bones of three human skele- 

 tons, obtained by Mr. B. M. Norman from mounds in Yucatan. 

 Vide Rambles in Yucatan, page 217. 



C. SOUTH AMERICANS. 



Araiicanians. 



1. 651. Araucanian Indian (Arauco) of Chili : woman, aetat. 50. 



F. A. 73. I. C. 73. 

 'i. 652. ARAUCANiANlndianrwoman, setat. 50. F.A.740. I.C. 75. 



3. 654. Indian of the Arauco nation of Chili: woman, setat. 30. 

 F. A. 72. I. C. 78. Crania Americana, plate 78 and page 241. 



4. 655. Indian of the Arauco nation: man, aetat. 30. F. A. 76. 

 I. C. 86. Crania Americana, plates 76, 77, and page 241. 



5. 656. Araucanian woman, setat. 30. F. A. 76. 1. C. 76. 



I received this and the four preceding skulls through the kindness of 

 Dr. J. N. Casanova, of Valparaiso, who informed me that the three 

 heads, Nos. 654, 655, 656, were taken from chiefs killed in an en- 

 counter with the Chilian army under General Bulnes, on the river 

 Bio-Bio, in 1835. I took occasion, however, to intimate to Dr. 



