Latcham.—NOTES ON SOME ANCIENT CHILIAN SKULLS bee 
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Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Vol. XXX) 1900, by W. 
H. Duckworth and B. H. Painthe following are given as peculiar 
characters of the Esquimaux skulls. 
1. Their scaphocephalic form. 
2. The persistency of the infra-orbital suture. 
. The asymmetry of the foramen magnum. 
. The worn surfaces of the teeth. 
. The thickening of the body of the mandible. 
The megasemic orbital aperture. 
The flattened nasal skeleton. 
. The prominence of the chin. 
. The low nasal index. 
. The prominence of the malars. 
. The small mastoid processes. 
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If these characters are compared with those given in our former 
article as being the distinctives of the race we are studying ; it 
will be seen that they are similar in every point. 
Many writers have called attention to the affinities between 
the Esquimaux and those tribes which people the coasts of the 
Magellan Straits, and which donbtlessly in former times wandered 
over the whole of Patagonia; the Tchuelches the Onas, the 
Analufes, and the Yaghans 
That these tribes have inhabited the southern portion of the 
continent since very remote times, is proved by the remains 
found in different localities. Among others we may mention a 
series of prehistoric skulls sent to the Anthropological school of 
Paris by Dr. Moreno. 
These skulls reproduce all the most notable characteristies of 
the Esquimaux: the high narrow forehead the flattened planes 
of the skull, its dolichocephalic, and akrocephalic aspect, the 
length of the face the prominence of the malars, the degree of 
prognathism, the small bi-dacryc distance, the large palate, and 
the peculiar wearing of the teeth. 
All these peculiaritis are also common to the Serena skulls, of 
which we are treating. 
