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  COLLECTIONS 
  FR03I 
  IIELANESIA. 
  

  

  Subbrachycephalic, 
  prognathous, 
  just 
  above 
  leptorbine. 
  

   Glabella 
  prominent, 
  about 
  No. 
  3 
  of 
  Broca's 
  scale. 
  Inion 
  scarcely 
  

   developed. 
  

  

  This 
  skull 
  is 
  unusually 
  broad 
  for 
  a 
  Melanesian, 
  and 
  has 
  a 
  some- 
  

   what 
  low 
  nasal 
  index 
  ; 
  it 
  agrees, 
  however, 
  very 
  well 
  with 
  No. 
  1193 
  

   of 
  Prof. 
  Plower's 
  Catalogue 
  * 
  (" 
  The 
  cranium 
  of 
  a 
  Papuan, 
  from 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  islands 
  in 
  Torres 
  Strait, 
  c? 
  "), 
  and 
  its 
  extreme 
  prognathism 
  

   shows 
  that 
  it 
  undoubtedly 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  Melanesian 
  race. 
  It 
  has 
  

   undergone 
  considerable 
  occipital 
  flattening 
  on 
  the 
  left 
  side, 
  either 
  

   from 
  sleeping 
  on 
  a 
  hard 
  wooden 
  pillow 
  or 
  some 
  similar 
  cause 
  ; 
  and 
  

   this 
  has 
  no 
  doubt 
  caused 
  the 
  brain-case 
  to 
  be 
  abnormally 
  broad. 
  

  

  The 
  present 
  specimen 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  skull 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  chief 
  of 
  

   the 
  island 
  of 
  Nagheer, 
  and 
  is 
  ornamented 
  with 
  two 
  long 
  strings 
  of 
  

   glass 
  beads 
  and 
  tassels 
  of 
  red 
  calico 
  hanging 
  from 
  the 
  zj'gomata. 
  It 
  

   has 
  its 
  orbits 
  filled 
  with 
  red 
  clay, 
  on 
  which 
  are 
  fastened 
  oblong 
  bits 
  

   of 
  mother-of-pearl 
  for 
  eyes 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  an 
  artificial 
  nose 
  carved 
  in 
  

   wood 
  and 
  painted 
  red, 
  and 
  a 
  red 
  band 
  of 
  paint 
  passes 
  across 
  the 
  

   forehead. 
  The 
  right 
  upper 
  canine, 
  lost 
  after 
  death 
  but 
  befoi'e 
  the 
  

   preparation 
  of 
  the 
  skull, 
  has 
  been 
  replaced 
  by 
  a 
  wooden 
  tooth. 
  The 
  

   four 
  posterior 
  teeth 
  in 
  the 
  right 
  lower 
  jaw 
  have 
  all 
  been 
  lost 
  during 
  

   life, 
  and 
  their 
  alveoli 
  have 
  quite 
  closed 
  up. 
  

  

  2. 
  Skull 
  of 
  Torres-Straits 
  Islander. 
  (Plates 
  I, 
  & 
  II. 
  fig. 
  B.) 
  

  

  Male 
  [?]. 
  Adult. 
  

  

  " 
  Native 
  woman 
  of 
  Nagheer 
  Island, 
  Torres 
  Straits." 
  — 
  R. 
  W. 
  G 
  

  

  Length 
  178 
  ; 
  gl. 
  occ. 
  181. 
  Breadth 
  136. 
  Height 
  137. 
  Maxi- 
  

   mum 
  frontal 
  breadth 
  112; 
  minimum 
  frontal 
  breadth 
  95. 
  

   Horizontal 
  circumferences 
  — 
  pi'caurieidar 
  230, 
  total 
  503. 
  

   Transverse 
  arcs 
  — 
  frontal 
  283, 
  bregmatic 
  300, 
  parietal 
  320, 
  

   occipital 
  207. 
  Longitudinal 
  arcs 
  — 
  frontal 
  130, 
  parietal 
  120, 
  

   occipital 
  112. 
  Foramen 
  magnum 
  — 
  length 
  38, 
  width 
  31. 
  Basi- 
  

   nasal 
  length 
  103. 
  Basialveolar 
  length 
  105. 
  Bizygomatic 
  

   breadth 
  129. 
  Height 
  of 
  — 
  face 
  86, 
  malar 
  24, 
  alveolus 
  16. 
  Auri- 
  

   culo-orbital 
  length 
  68. 
  Nasal 
  height 
  49, 
  width 
  26. 
  Maxilla 
  

   — 
  length 
  61, 
  breadth 
  63. 
  

  

  Mandible 
  — 
  bicondylar 
  width 
  117, 
  bigoniac 
  width 
  93, 
  symphysial 
  

   height 
  31, 
  molar 
  height 
  24, 
  coronoid 
  height 
  52, 
  gonio-sym- 
  

   physial 
  length 
  88. 
  Hamus 
  — 
  height 
  64, 
  antero-posterior 
  

   breadth 
  31. 
  Bigoniac 
  arc 
  197. 
  

  

  Indices 
  — 
  latitudinal 
  76-4, 
  altitudinal 
  77*0, 
  frontal 
  69*9, 
  gnathic 
  

   101-9, 
  nasal 
  53-1. 
  

  

  Subdolichocephalic, 
  hypsicephalic, 
  mesognathous, 
  and 
  platyrhine. 
  

  

  Glabella 
  low, 
  about 
  No. 
  1. 
  No 
  inion. 
  Median 
  line 
  of 
  nose 
  very 
  

   prominent. 
  

  

  Similarly 
  prepared 
  to 
  the 
  last, 
  the 
  only 
  differences 
  being 
  that 
  

   the 
  strings 
  of 
  beads 
  from 
  the 
  zygomata 
  are 
  shorter 
  and 
  without 
  

  

  ♦ 
  Op. 
  cit. 
  p. 
  222. 
  

  

  