HUMAN CRANIA. 



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3. 1045i Ancient Peruvian Lead, artificially elongated : woman, 

 getat. 30. F. A. 68^. L C 77. From Arica. Dr. P. B. Goddard. 

 See Crania Americana, plate 3. 



The following highly interesting series of crania, ten in number, 

 (1275 to 1284, inclusive,) was sent me by my friend William A. 

 Foster, Esq., now of Lima, who obtained them from the cele- 

 brated Peruvian cemetery at Arica. " This cemetery,'' he observes, 

 " lies on the face of a sand-hill, sloping towards the sea. The ex- 

 tent of surface occupied by these tombs, as far as we explored, I 

 should say was five or six acres. In many of the tombs three or 

 four bodies were found clustered together, always in the sittiny 

 posture, and wrapped in three or four thicknesses of cloth, and a 

 mat thrown over all. Each one has about the person a pouch or 

 bag, an ear or two of maize, fruit of some kind, and not unfre. 

 quently a drinking vessel." Lima, December 17, 1845. 



See Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, for April, 

 1846 ; and American Journal of Science, for July, 1846. 



4. 1275i Cranium of a child, partially compressed and elongated. 



5. 1276. Cranium of a child about four years old : natural form. 



6. 1277i Skull of a man, getat. 65, remarkably altered by art into the 

 elongated, symmetrical form. I. C. 69. 



The annexed wood-cut shows the course of the bandages used in ob- 

 taining this singular modification of the cranium. The forehead 

 was pressed downwards and backwards by a compress probably of 

 folded cloth. To keep it in its place, a bandage was carried over 

 it from the base of the occiput and thence across the forehead. To 

 confine the lateral portions of the skull, and in order to produce 



Peruvian skull (127T). 



the symmetrically elongated form, the same bandage was continued 

 over the top of the head, immediately behind the coronal suture, 

 probably with an intervening compress ; and the bandaging was 



