10 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



DESCRIPTION OF A " BEOTHUC " CALVARIA AND AN 



ESKIMO SKULL, 



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J. D. FIDDES, M.A., B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., 

 Junior Assistant to Professor of Anatomy, University of Aberdeen. 



In 1909, Sir Wm. MacGregor, lato Governor of Newfoundland, presented 

 to the Aberdeen University Anatomical Museum a Calvaria which was found 

 in a prehistoric grave in Newfoundland. The grave and mode of burial he 

 stated to be characteristically Beothuc. 



Along with this Calvaria he presented an Eskimo Skull found on the 

 Coast of Labrador adjoining Newfoundland. 



The two specimens are very similar in appearance as regards the condition 

 of the bones, both being white and weather-beaten. 



The Beothuc Calvaria consists of the following bones : 

 Frontals complete except the Orbital plates. 



Parietals complete and the upper part of the Occipital bones as far 

 down as \ inch below Inion. It appeared to have formed part 

 of a skull much above the average in size and was distinctly 

 Dolichocephalic in character. 

 The measurements were : 



Greatest Length 189 m.m. 



Greatest Breadth 120 m.m. 



Cephalic Index 688 i.e., Dolichocephalic. 



The Frontal bones made a most marked recession backwards to Nasion. 

 The measurements of the Eskimo Skull presented at the same time were : 

 Greatest Length 185 m.m. 



Greatest Breadth 130 mm. 



Cephalic Index 703 i.e., Dolichocephalic. 



