38 A SUGGESTION FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK 



But though the California, Saugus, and Eskimo skulls are all 

 long-headed, relationship is not probable because while the 

 Eskimo skulls show a vertical index greater than the cranial 

 index the other skulls show the reverse. 



The mound builders are so extremely round-headed as to 

 sanction the idea that artificial distortion of the skull may have 

 increased the average indices in the table here given. And now 

 we come to skulls of a shape so peculiar that Prof. Hedlicka 

 has pronounced them (at least as strong evidence of), the type 

 of a race new to America anthropologists. I refer to the two 

 skulls found at Trenton and Burlington, 1ST. J., the average 

 cranial and vertical indices of which are 80.6 and 64. While 

 round-headed, the vertical indices are far below that of any 

 skulls yet found in America, even among the long-heads, and 

 thus closely resemble the Bushmen of South Africa. Their cranial 

 capacity, however, averages a little higher than that of the 

 Bushmen, viz. 1310 to 1270 cubic centimeters. Whether a race 

 as low as the Bushmen ever lived in America in post-glacial 

 times is a question yet to be answered, perhaps from Nova 

 Scotia. 



But back of this lies the presumed pre-glacial or inter-glacial 

 man whose skulls are said to be of the long-headed type. Among 

 the problems yet to be solved are the following: 



1st. Anthropometrical study of the earliest Micmac re- 

 mains. 



2nd. Possible extension of long-headed races to Nova 

 Scotia in pre-Micmac times. 



3rd. The former existence in Nova Scotia of savages of 

 the Bushmen type. 



4th. The existence in Nova Scotia of a long-headed race 

 of inter-glacial or pre-glacial age. 



Grouped around these are many questions of affinity and 

 pre-historic intercourse that we could aid in throwing light on. 



When we look back on the surprising revelations given t<> 

 the world by cave excavation alone, there is good reason for 



