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can be seen, in no way extraordinary. The teeth are of moderate size, much 

 worn ; the molars show diminishing size from front to rear, as in recent skulls. 

 The enamel is lusterless and cracked ; the dentine is also cracked. The bone 

 is not fossilized, but has the appearance of greater age than any of the other 

 specimens. 



PORTION OF LOAVER JAW a 



Found in the Gilder mound by Professor Barbour at a depth of 5 feet. The 

 only part remaining is the left vertical ramus. This is 5.7 cm. high, 3.55 cm. 

 broad at its narrowest part, and but moderately thick ; it shows a notch of 

 good depth and a feminine angle. There is no perceptible fossilization. 



About 200 yards north of the eminence from which skulls nos. 1-8 

 were recovered, another similar elevation on the ridge was dug into 

 in 1894 by the Parker, Morris, and Huntington party; some human 

 skulls and other bones were found here, but nothing was preserved. 

 Still farther north, in the west bank of the wagon road that runs 

 along the ridge, toward the end of 1906 Mr. Gilder found, not more 

 than 2 feet below the surface, three defective female skulls. Two of 

 these are apparently dolichocephalic, while one the best preserved 

 is mesocephalic (cephalic index 79.3). These crania are all darker 

 in color than the specimens from the Gilder mound a fact which 

 may be due to their more superficial position; the surfaces of all 

 three show many minute pits and furrows, root-erosions. In skull 

 no. x, the occipital squama above the foramen magnum has been cut 

 away on each -side of the median line, leaving two quite symmet 

 rical curved defective portions. This suggests the cutting in the 

 Joseph skull (no. G, Gilder mound) in the same location. 



HUMERI 



Five entire bones (of which two form a pair) and 12 pieces of distinct 

 humeri, recovered from the mound by Mr. Gilder at various depths not ascer 

 tained. All show good, but not extraordinary, sizes and dimensions, and in 

 flatness of the shaft, its shape, and in the frequency of perforation of the 

 septum between the coronoid and the olecranon fossa?, approximate closely 

 the humeri of Indians. A rare feature in two of the specimens, although one 

 not unknown in Indians, is the presence of ridges 3 and 4 mm. high, respec 

 tively, at the highest point, in the locality of the supracondyloid process. None 

 of the bones show any trace of fossilization. On three of them are seen border 

 scratches, cut-marks, or marks resulting from the gnawing of rodents the 

 scratches, smaller cuts, and teeth marks can not well be distinguished one from 

 another. 



a Pictured in Professor Barbour s paper in the Records of the Past, u, pt. 2, 45, Feb 

 ruary, 1907. 



