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plaited and ornamented grass has been fastened to the jaws, by which apparently the skull 

 has been suspended. 



Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq., F.G.S. 



5351. The mummified head of a Papuan, from Darnley Island, Torres' Straits. 



The dried integuments of the face have been painted red, and artificial eyes, made of the 

 nacreous lining of some shell, have been inserted. A depressed fracture on the left parietal 

 bone has been filled up by a plate of some hard foreign substance. The cranium is long and 

 narrow, with a forehead sloping and contracted, but with the parietal protuberances well 

 marked. The molars show the large size characteristic of the Papuan variety. 



Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq., F.G.S. 



5352. The cranium of a Papuan, native of Wallis Island, Endeavour Straits. 



By its small and narrow proportions, the low retreating forehead, the slightly produced 

 nasals, and much produced maxillae, this skull belongs to the Melanian variety ; but the 

 molar teeth, though large, are relatively smaller than in the Australians. The malar bones 

 are moderately prominent. The alisphenoid joins the parietal on both sides of the head. 

 The eustachian processes are well marked. 



Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq., F.G.S. 



5353. The cranium of a Papuan, native of New Guinea. 



The glabellar prominence is more marked in this than in the preceding skull, but is less 

 produced, and the nasals are less sunk, than in the typical Australian, to which, however, the 

 cranium adheres in its general shape, and the jaws in their anterior prominence. The large 

 proportional size of the molars and premolars, especially in the two last molars, is not mani- 

 fested in this skull, and the canines are less advanced. The form and relative size, therefore, 

 of the bony palate approach nearer that of the African Negro. A wormian bone intervenes 

 on each side between the alisphenoid and parietal. 



5354. The cranium of a female Papuan, native of New Guinea. 



A wormian ossicle is interposed between the alisphenoid and parietal on both sides of the 

 head. The cranium is narrow, very slightly expanded at the parietal protuberances. The 

 glabella is very slightly prominent : the nasals are narrow and almost flat : the maxillae are 

 produced. The last molar is still concealed ; the first and second molars have been mode- 

 rately worn. 



Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq., P. G.S. 



5355. The mummified skull of a Papuan, native of New Guinea. 



It is of a young individual in whom the last molar tooth had not come into place in either 

 jaw, and the cranium is smaller than that of a European youth with the same dentition. The 

 frontal region is remarkably low and contracted : some decussating lines have been cut upon 

 it : the frontal suture is obliterated : the squamosal joins the frontal on the right side. The 



