HUMAN CRANIA. 



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is along a terrace of soft sandstone, and the bodies are buried in 

 the sitting posture.'' 



From Dr. John Houston, of Valparaiso, who obtained this and the 

 following skull and presented them with the above memorandum : 



Indian Cranium (1242). 



2. 1243i Indian cranium, found with the preceding. 

 Both these heads are elongated upwards in the sugar-loaf form, by 

 pressure applied both back and front. See Crania Americana, 

 page 116; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, for 

 December, 1845, and American Journal of Science and Arts, for 

 July, 1846. 



For original sources of information on these singular artificial modi- 

 fications of the form of the cranium, see Cieza, Chronica del Peru, 

 cap. XXVI, and Torquemada, Monarquia Indiana, T. II. p. 581. 

 Fol. Madrid, 1723. 



' Charihs. 



1. 638. Skull of a Charib of Venezuela, flattened by art : found in 

 a terra cotta vase, with the os sacrum and some small bones. Man, 

 aetat. 40? F. A. 70. From Ex-President Vargas, of Caraccas. * 

 Crania Americana, plate 64 and page 237. 



2. 692. Skull of a Charib of the Antilles, obtained in the island of 

 Nassau by the late Rev. Thomas Leaver, for several years a mission- 

 ary there. He presented the cranium to Dr. Thomas C. Dunn, of 



