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inches in length. The primary significance of this peculiar 

 form of tattoo! nor jg not known and has been fors^otten 

 even by the natives themselves. Concerning the method 

 of operation, Frazer says " the brand is cut with a piece of 

 flint or of a glass bottle in some simple pattern ; the cuts 

 bleed a good deal, and to make them deeper the knife is 

 applied again and again. While the wounds are still 

 open, hoar frost is rubbed in, or charcoal, and that causes 

 w^ell-marked ridges to remain permanently there. The 

 thing is done when the person is young, perhaps from 6 

 to 12 years of age." 



The anterior edges of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscles 

 are uimsually prominent and make a well-defined depres- 

 sion between them. 



SKELETON. 



The skeleton is almost complete, only a few of the ter- 

 minal phalanges being missing. The extremities of both 

 hands and feet have a charred appearance as if from hav- 

 ing been in fire. Otherwise the skeleton is in good con- 

 dition. The length of the entire skeleton is 1616 mm. 

 which with 35 mm. for the soft parts would make 1651 

 mm. for the stature of Neddy Larkin. In taking the 

 height of the skeleton I followed the method employed 

 by Dr. Dwight and fully described by him in the Medical 

 Record of Sept. 8, 1894. 



Examinina: the leno:th of the long^ bones we have the 

 following measurements : 



Humerus 272 mm. 



Radius 253 



Ulna 272 



Femur, oblique length . . 440 

 Tibia, maximum length . . 381 



From these measurements some interesting observations 

 can be made. The proportion of the humerus to the total 



