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Dr. R. Hartman 1 speaks of the men as varying in height 

 from i. 60 m. to 1.80 m., generally slender and the muscles only 

 moderately well developed. The head is high and narrow 

 (hypsistenocephaly) with here and there a tendency to scapho- 

 cephaly. According to the same author, the frontal protuber- 

 ances are rather large. The torus occipitalis transversus is 

 sometimes prominent, the superciliary arches well developed; 

 the demarcation between forehead and nose is sharp, a char- 

 acter common among Melanesian races. The nose is rather 

 flat, the chin broad; the eyes are deep set, appear small, and 

 are dark to grayish-brown. The ears are well-formed; the 

 muscles which move the jaws are strong. The large teeth are 

 white when not colored yellowish-brown by chewing betel. 



GENERAL CRANIAL CHARACTERS 



Eleven of the skulls from Gazelle Peninsula are of the 

 male sex, eight are of the female sex, and five are of youths 

 and children. The average age of the adults was about thirty- 

 eight years. 



Norma occipitalis. Viewed from behind, there is a promi- 

 nent crest at the vertex in Nos. 16911 and 18283, male and 

 female respectively. In the female series, there is a pronounced 

 depression in two crania (11614, 18283) along the sagittal 

 suture from the lambda to within 27 mm. of the bregma. 



The norma lateralis in the males reveals prominent glabella 

 and superciliary ridges with the exception of No. 1 1622. When 

 resting on their bases, the mastoid processes do not touch in 

 any of the male crania; No. 18280 rests on the occipital con- 

 dyles; and all others, on either the posterior margin of the 

 foramen magnum, or the occipital immediately back of the 

 foramen magnum. Only one female cranium rests on the 

 mastoid processes; one rests on the condyles, and all the 

 others, on either the posterior margin of the foramen magnum 

 or the occipital just back of the foramen. 



1 Forschungsreise S.M.S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876, I. 



