THE PALANTHROP1C AGE 55 



his features, some resemblance to the harsher type of 

 American physiognomy, with overhanging brows, 

 small and transverse eyes, high cheek-bones, and 

 coarse mouth. He had not lived to so great an age 

 without some rubs, for his thigh-bone showed a de- 

 pression which must have resulted from a severe 

 wound perhaps from the horn of some wild animal 

 or the spear of an enemy. 



The woman presented similar characters of stature 

 and cranial form modified by her sex, and in form 

 and visage closely resembled her sisters of the 

 American wilderness in the pre-Columbian times. 

 If her hair and complexion were suitable, she would 

 have passed at once for an American-Indian woman, 

 but one of unusual size and development. Her head 

 bears sad testimony to the violence of her age and 

 people. She died from the effects of a blow from a 

 stone-headed pogamogan or spear, which has pene- 

 trated the right side of the forehead with so clean a 

 fracture as to indicate the extreme rapidity and force 

 of its blow. It is inferred from the condition of the 

 edges of this wound that she may have survived its 

 infliction for two weeks or more. If, as is most 

 likely, the wound was received in some sudden 

 attack by a hostile tribe, they must have been driven 

 off or have retired, leaving the wounded woman in 

 the hands of her friends to be tended for a time, 

 and then buried, either with other members of her 

 family or with others who had perished in the same 

 skirmish. Unless the wound was inflicted in sleep, 



