:\ii;m()1i;s of thi; national At^\in;MY of scmkncks. 



217 



They are also liij^hor than any oCtho averages in liroca's Table 15, • except the modern Europeans 

 and some of the aneieut Parisians. They are higher than tliose of the l-'remh of tiie Polished 

 Stone i»erio<i. This Table B of Uroea's shows 20 series, representing I la; most diverse races of the 

 world, and is therefore au excellent basis for comparison. 



J 31. THK 01,KCK.\N()N PKKKOHATION. 



In the prevalence of the olet-ranon perforation the ancient inhabitants of th(i Salt River Valley 

 stand, so far as wo can learn, at the head of the liiuiian race. The lollowing table shows tiie per- 

 centage of this anomaly in -i series, of more than 1.") humeri eacli, representing many ditlereut 

 races and i)eriods of time and arranged in order from the highest to the lowest percentage. It 

 will be seen that the aneieut Saladoaus stand easily at the head of the list. We might have 

 enlarged this table from our researches into the literature of the subject and by including smaller 

 series, and yet have given no race precedence over the Saladoaus. 



Table S. — Shoioing percentages of olecranon perforation in different peoples. 



V. S. Army Mediral MaKeuin 



BulletiuH de la Soci(«t^ d'Anthropologie. Paris, 



1878, Vol. I, p. 433. 

 Topiiiiiid, Elements d'.\ntbro))i)logicti('uorale, 



p. 1016. 

 do 



lection ofDr. D. S. l.amli 



I U. S. .\riiiy Medicjil Museum 



I Topinard, filcuients d'Anthropologie Udndrale, 

 I p. 1016. 



21.7 

 19.6 

 14.1 



U. S. Army Medit-al Mu-senm 



Topinanl, iJlements d'Authropologie G(^iipralu 

 p. 1016. 



U. S. Army Medical Muscuui . 



Bnlletius de la Soci^tcS d'Authropologie. Paris, 



Vol. V, p. 640. 



U. S. Army Medical Museum 



Topinard, £l(Sment8 d'Anthropologie Gi^udrale, 



p. 1016. 



U. S. Army Medical Museum 



Topinard, Elements d'Anthropologie G^u<?rale, 



p. 1016. 

 do 



Revue d'Anthropologie. Vol. ix, ]>. 147 



Topinard, Elements d'Anthropologie GeiK-rale 

 p. 1016. 



Ancient Saladoans (Hemenway collection). 

 Guauches, Canary Lslands (Verneau). 



Yellow and American races. 



Polynesians. 



From Indian mounds in the United States ( Wy- 



Dissecting-room specimens, mostly negro and 



mulatto. 

 From Indian mounds in the United States. 

 Guauches of Canary Islands. 



Dolmens and grottoes around Paris (Polished 



Stone period). 

 African negroes. 



Ancient Cibolaus (Hemenway collection). 

 Melauesians. 



Dolmens of Imberon. 



Caverne de I'llomme-mort, Loz^re (Polished 

 Stone period). 



Dolmens of La Lozere (Polished Stone period). 



Pathological specimens, mostly from white sol- 

 diers. 



From Chamont (Stone age). 



Modern American Indians. 



Parisians, Cemetery of the Innocents (Hauiyand 

 Sauvago). 



Parisians of the Middle Ages (Broca and Batail- 

 lard). 



Europeans of America (Wymau, Peabody Mu- 

 seum reports). 



Long barrows of England (Bronze age). 



Perhaps some of the perforations were not counted. The bones of the Salado series, as before 

 remarked, were veiy fragile, arid the thin partition between the fossa; of the humerus was some- 

 times broken by accident. Pains were taken to distinguish between the natural and the accidental 



■<>p. cit.,p. 582. 



