Crania of ^borigiii,Ql Americans. 181 



modern convents. Their funeral rites were barbarous and 

 cruel : when theii* chief men died, they buried a number of 

 human victims, women, boys, and servants, to attend on the 

 departed in the next world. They were conquered by Pizzaro 

 with a force which consisted of ^2 horsemen and 102 foot sol- 

 diers. P. 124. The following is given as a strikingly charac- 

 teristic Peruvian head. 



Modern Peruvian, Fig. 5, 



*' The skull in these people," says Dr Morton, " is remark- 

 able for its small size, and for its quadrangular form. The 

 occiput is greatly^ compressed, sometimes absolutely vertical ; 

 tlie sides are swelled out, and the forehead is somewhat ele- 

 vated, but very retreating. The skulls are remarkable for 



