366 Morton’s Crania Americana. 
Mexico. They believed in one God, whom they called Vira- 
cocha, in the immortality of the soul, and in rewards and pun- 
ishments in the next life. They worshipped both the sun and 
moon, in whose honor they erected temples and formed idols. 
They consecrated virgins, in the same manner as practised in 
modern convents. Their funeral rites were barbarous and cruel : 
when their chief men died, they buried a number of human 
victims, women, boys and servants, to attend on the departed 
in the next world. They were conquered by Pizarro with 
a force which consisted of 62 horsemen and 102 fovt soldiers. 
p. 124. The following is given as a strikingly characteristic 
Peruvian head. 
Mopern Pervviay, Fig. 5. 
“The skull in these people,” says Dr. Morton, “is remarkable J 
for its small size, and for its quadrangular form. The occiput is 
greatly compressed, sometimes absolutely vertical; the sides are 
swelled out, and the forehead is somewhat elevated, but very Te- 
treating. The skulls are remarkable for their irregularity. The 
dimensions of this skull are as follows: 
Longitudinal diameter, . . . . 6.1 inches. 
Parietal 0. oS a ee 
Frontal diameter, ee 
Vertical — do. + ew ee adliteliaa 
