MAC CURDY HUMAN SKULLS FROM GAZELLE PENINSULA. 



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MEASURES 



Capacity. The capacity 1 (measured by shot) is small, 

 averaging, for the males, 1345.2 cc.; and for the females, 

 1214.5. The range of variation for both sexes is small also 

 (1078-1470), both extremes being of the male sex. 



Of the Hamburg 2 collection, twenty-six are from Neu 

 Pommern, and 120 are from Mioko, the principal island imme- 

 diately to the east of Neu Pommern. The crania from both 

 these islands are described as being very much alike, recalling 

 the Viti Island type. The average capacity for the males is 

 1267 cc.; that for the females is 1180 cc.; and for both sexes 

 1232 cc. (maximum 1530, minimum 990). As Mioko is sepa- 

 rated from Gazelle Peninsula only by the narrow St. George 

 Channel one would expect to find unity in the ethnic type. 

 The comparison of averages is largely deprived of its signi- 

 ficance if the series are too small, the sexes mixed, and methods 

 employed are different. Whatever the method great care must 

 be exercised in order to eliminate the personal equation; other- 

 wise the results for the same cranium may vary as much as 

 100 or even 150 cc. The following table then simply indi- 

 cates that the cranial capacity for Neu Pommern and Mioko 

 is small whatever the method or whoever the operator: 



Virchow 3 refers to a female skull from Neu Pommern 

 with a capacity of only 860 cc. It came from the same burial 



1 Broca's methods of measurement, unless otherwise specified have been followed. 

 2 J. D. E. Schmeltz and R. Krause. Die ethnographisch-anthropologische Abteilung des 

 Museum Godefroy in Hamburg. Hamburg, 1881. 

 * Zeitscbrift fur Etbnologie, 1894, XXVI, 505. 



