SKELETON OF BIMANA. 



367 



384 



385 



Skull of Macusi Indian. 



The cranium of a Peruvian of the modern or Inca race is short, 

 broad, and high, especially behind, owing to the habit of carrying 

 the infant with the back of the head resting upon a flat board, 

 the pressure usually producing a slight unsymmetrical distortion of 

 the occipital part of the skull. The forehead is narrow and receding. 

 The glabella slightly prominent. In the older race the cranium 

 was singularly and artificially distorted to the form, e.g., shown 

 in figs. 387 and 388 ; * in which, with a sudden slope and slight 



Front. Side. 



Skull of ain-ieut Peruvian, from Tlticaca, 

 with artificially constricted cranium. 



Base. 



convexity of the frontal, there is an annular constriction of the 

 cranium behind the coronal suture; the flattening, constriction, 

 and elongation having been produced by ligature at that part 

 during infancy. The nasal bones are large, moderately promi- 

 nent, and continued forward from the same sloping line with the 

 glabella. The jaws are much produced, but the chin is well de- 

 veloped. Notwithstanding the deformity and the low character 

 imparted artificially to tliis skull, the cranial cavity is as capacious 



' XLiv. p. 844. 



