NEW EXAMPLES OE AMERICAN INDIAN SKULLS 

 WITH LOW FOREHEAD. 



By Ales Hjrdlicka, 

 Assistant Curator, Division of Physical Anthropology, U. S. National Museum. 



Since the writer's report in the latter part of last year" upon mod- 

 ern Indian crania with low foreheads, the U. S. National Museum 

 received two additional specimens of this character, one from a small 

 mound in western Oregon and one from a tumulus in western Mis- 

 souri. The two skulls, about neither of which there is any belief of 

 great antiquity, appear, on cursory inspection, to possess their most 

 distinctive feature, namely, the low front, to about the same degree, 

 and they are also related as to the general type of the cranial form. 

 But on close examination the two specimens are found to be very dis- 

 similar, and there appear so many points of interest that it becomes 

 desirable, in view of the importance of the still imperfectly under- 

 stood question of low foreheads, to describe them. 



THE OREGON SKULL. 



This specimen, Cat. No. 248994, U.S.N.M., was discovered and 

 given to the Museum by Mr. J. G. Crawford, a photographer and 

 amateur archeologist of Albany, Oregon. Mr. Crawford dug it out, 

 on February 8, 1908, from a low mound at Kings Point, Lincoln 

 County, Oregon. The details of the find are rather meager. The 

 fragments of the skull lay. with a few pieces of bones from other 

 1 >arts of the skeleton, in " a thoroughly burnt ground, about 4 feet 

 from the surface, with a layer of sandstone pieces lying immediately 

 above the human remains." while the soil " was the ordinary one of 

 that locality." No impression arose that the burial might be one of 

 great age. 



The specimen is an imperfect calvarium, almost the entire left half 

 of which, as well as the base and a larger part of the back, are lacking. 

 A few unconnected fragments include the damaged chin part of the 



a Skeletal Remains suggesting or attributed t<> Early Man in North America, 

 Bull, :\:\, Bur. Amer. Ethuol., Washington, 1907. 



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