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skulls, namely, the brachycephals of Arkansas and farther south, 

 and also among the skulls of recent Indians. Two such speci 

 mens, both from the Davenport Academy collection, are, the 

 first, a normal, undeformed, Arkansas mound skull (plate xni, b) 

 and the other a skull of a modern Sioux (plate xn, &), who died as a 

 captive near Davenport. A recent examination of the great cranial 

 collection in the U. S. National Museum showed the presence of the 

 following additional skulls with remarkably low foreheads : 



Catalogue 

 numbers 



From Indian burials in California.- 22517G, 241111, 



241912, 241 910, 241927, 241939, 241998, 242009, 242014, 242148, 242200 



From mounds in North Dakota .__ 22887G, 228878 



From a mound in Florida __ 1G333 



From a mound in Illinois 136778 



From a mound in Illinois 242989 



From a mound near Alton, Illinois 243007 



From a mound in Orange county, Indiana-- .__ 243855 



From a mound near Sculleyville, Iowa__ 22529G 



From a mound at Eagle Point, Iowa__ 243845 



From a mound at Albany, Iowa 243847 



A Raw, Kansas 243544 



From a burial at Cboptank, Maryland-- 243933 



From a burial in Missouri ._ _ 218993 



A Piegan, Montana 243673 



From a burial at Durango, New Mexico. _ 243275 



From a burial at Pistol river, Oregon__ 243602 



From a burial at Pistol river, Oregon 243603 



A Paiute, Nevada 243817 



A Pawnee, Kansas. _ 243531 



A Ponca, Kansas. _ 225097 



A Sioux, Dakota.. 225238 



A Sioux, Dakota.. 243710 



A Ute, Utah 226084 



From a burial at Bagley, Wisconsin.. 207874 



From a burial in Wisconsin 243290 



In most of these cases the lowness of the forehead and often also 

 the volume of the ridges equal those of skull no. 6 from Long s hill, 

 and in several instances they exceed this specimen in these particular, 

 characters; no. 136778 shows even a lower forehead than the Gilder 

 Mound skull, known as no. 8 (plates x, #, xi, / figures 12, 14, 16). 



It is thus seen that the Gilder mound skulls are by no means unique 

 in their low-order form, and that no definite conclusion as to their 

 antiquity can be based on this inferiority or peculiarity of type 

 alone. The occasional and apparently nonpathological occurrence 

 of such forms in the males, particularly among the mesocephalic to 

 dolichocephalic ethnic element a of the upper Missouri and Missis- 



a Suggesting in many ways the Californians ; compare the writer s Contribution to 

 the Physical Anthropology of California, University of California Publications, American 

 Archeology and Ethnology, iv, no. 2, Berkeley, 1906. 



