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They are also higher than any of the averages in Broca's Table B,* except the modern Europeans 

 and some of the ancient Parisians. They are higher than those of the French of the Polished 

 Stone period. This Table B of Broca's shows 29 series, representing the most diverse races of the 

 world, and is therefore an excellent basis for comparison. 



$ 31. THE OLECRANON PERFORATION. 



Iii the prevalence of the olecranou perforation the ancient inhabitants of the Salt River Valley 

 stand, so far as we can learn, at the head of the human race. The following table shows the per- 

 centage of this anomaly in -!4 series, of more than 15 humeri each, representing many different 

 races and periods of time and arranged in order from the highest to the lowest percentage. It 

 will be seen that the ancient Saladoaus stand easily at the head of the list. We might have 

 enlarged this table from our researches into the literature of the subject and by including smaller 

 series, and yet have given no race precedence over the Saladoans. 



TABLE S. Showing percentages of olecranon perforation in different peoples. 



ber 

 of 



hume 

 ri. 



89 

 150 



30 



32 



80 



20 



62 



122 



97 

 61 



30 

 66 



388 

 288 



27 



16 

 200 



96 



150 



218 

 52 

 30 



ber 



of 

 fora- 



48 



6!) 



17 



22 

 2 

 1 



Per 

 cent. 



53. 9 

 46 



36.2 

 34.3 



31.2 

 30 



27.4 

 25.6 



21.8 



21.7 

 19.6 

 14.1 



12.1 



10.6 



10.6 



7.9 

 7.4 



6.2 

 5.5 



5.2 

 4.6 



4.1 



3.9 



Authority <>r collection. 



U. S. Army Medical Museum 



bulletins <h- la Socirtc d'Anthropologie. Paris, 



1878, Vol. I, p. 433. 

 Topinartl, filaments d'Anthropologie Ge"n<5rale, 



p. 1016. 



...do... 



.do. 



Private collection of Dr. D. S. Lamb 



U. S. Army Medical Museum 



Topinard, Elements d'Anthropologie Ge"n<>rale, 



p. 1016. 



...do... 



.do. 



U. S. Army Medical Museum 



Topinard, Elements d'Authropologie Geudrale, 

 p. 1016. 

 do. 



.do. 



Race or source. 



.do. 



U. 8. Army Medical Museum . 



Bulletins de la Societc' d'Anthropologie. Paris, 



Vol. V, ]>. till). 



U. S. Army Medical Museum 



Topinard, Elements d'Anthropologie Ge'ndrale, 



p. 1016. 



U. S. Army Medical Museum 



Topinard, Eldments d'Anthropologie Gc'ne'rale, 



p. 1016. 



...do... 



Revue d'Aiithropologie. Vol. ix, p. 147 



Topiuard, filaments d'Anthropologie Gc'ne'rale, 

 p. 1016. 



AIM lent Saladoans (Hemenway collection). 

 Guanclies, Canary Islands (Verneau). 



Yellow and American races. 



Polynesians. 



From Indian mounds in the United States (Wy- 



man). 

 Dissecting-room specimens, mostly negro and 



mulatto. 



From Indian mounds in the United States. 

 Guanches of Canary Islands. 



Dolmens and grottoes around Paris (Polished 



Stone period). 

 African negroes. 



Ancient Cibolans (Hemenway collection). 

 Melanesiaus. 



Dolmens of Imberou. 



C'averne de 1'Homme-mort, Lozfere (Polished 

 Stone period). 



Dolmens of La Lozere (Polished Stone period). 



Pathological specimens, mostly from white sol- 

 diers. 



From Chainont (Stone age). 



American negroes and mulattoes. 

 Parisians from fourth to twelfth centuries. 



Modern American Indians. 



Parisians, Cemetery of the Innocents (Hamyaud 

 Sauvage). 



Parisians of the Middle Ages (Broca and Batail- 

 lard). 



Europeans of America (Wymau, Peabody Mu- 

 seum reports). 



Long barrows of England (Bronze age). 



Perhaps some of the perforations were not counted. The bones of the Salado series, as before 

 remarked, were very fragile, and the thin partition between the fossae of the humerus was some- 

 times broken by accident. Pains were taken to distinguish between the natural and the accidental 



"fjp. c(.,p. 582. 



