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selected iiosition. This coustantly-reeuiriiig central location of the hole 

 would apparently imply that the suspension of the skull was, at least, 



Fig. 6. 



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Perforation, lionge River skull, (No. 1,) full wize. F, frontal. 



one of the objects sought by this observance, the even balance of the 

 head when thus treated being, of course, most desirable. This latter 

 skull presents the smallest of the perforations which I have as yet seen ; 

 this as exhibited in Fig. 8 is but little more than one-third of an inch in 

 diameter. 



Artificially-perforated skull from Great Mound, Rouge River, Michigan, (No. G,) one- 

 fourth size. 



The numbers (No. 1, No. G) appended to these figures refer to the 

 numerical order of these skulls in the "Table giving the dimensions of 

 crania from the Great Mound at the Rouge Kiver," and which forms a 

 part of the paper to which I have already referred. They are used in 

 this connection for the convenience of those who shall have access to 

 the Report of the American Association for 1875. 



