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\ -tudy of tin- Calaxera- -Unll a- compared with other crania, 

 particularly with th < of California Indians, has lieen made by 

 Dr. .TeliYeys \Vyman ami I>r. <i<'.>rre A. Dorsey. Doctor Wyman's 



conclusion-, are that 



i 1 i Tin- -ixull presents no sinus of having lclongcd to an Inferior rare. In 

 Its breadth It agres with the other crania from ralifornla. except those of the 

 IHgger-. ''in surpasses them In tln> other particulars In which comparisons hare 

 IHH-H nuiilc. Tlii- is cs|>ecially ohviotiK In tin* greater prominence of tin- fore- 

 head ami the capacity of its chanilxr. (2) In so far as It differs In (llinenMloiiH 

 from the other crania from California, it approaches the Ks<|ulmaux. 



In this re|Hrt there are two points to which exception must be 

 taken. The skull lacks l>oth pnrietals and one whole teni|>oral; there- 

 fore a measurement of its breadth (given by Wyinan as 15 cm.) 

 is impossible, and even an approximation to it must remain uncertain : 

 and there is absolutely nothing about the specimen which approaches 

 the high and narrow-nosed, broad and Hat-faced, and narrow, keel- 

 vaulted Eskimo. Doctor Dorsey's account 6 is more circumstantial, 

 but unfortunately is based on a comparison of the Calavcras skull as 

 known from Whitney's account and measurements, including the 

 >lightly misleading illustrations, and not from the specimen itself. 

 with a skull of a Digger Indian from Calaveras county. Dix'tor 

 Dorsey recognizes the skull as that of a male, and in summarizing 

 Mates that 



While the comimrison of nn actual skull with the drawings of a fragment 

 of another must be unsatisfactory, yet the conclusion is nevssary that the 

 two skulls have the same general features and may easily be pronounced of 

 one and the same tyi>e. 



The National Museum collection includes two crania and some 

 fragments of skulls from caves in Calaveras county, collected and 

 donated in 1857 by J. S. Hittell, of San Francisco. All these sjx'ci- 

 men> had, and most of them still retain, inside and outside, a coating 

 of grayish calcareous, stalagmitic deposit, much like that which 

 partially covers the Calaveras skull; in fact, on fracture, the de|x>sit 

 in the two cases, so far as the unaided eye can perceive, is identical in 

 character. None of the cave skulls or fragments show any adhesion 

 of gravel. Both the entire specimens are male adult skulls, but one 

 (cat. no. J'J.'ilTl) does not appear entirely normal, and its orbits are 

 a fleeted in form and size by very heavy supraorbital ridges, so that 

 only one of the specimens (cat. no. 2*25172) ap|>cars fit for comparison 

 with the Calaveras skull. It is a mesocephalic cranium (cephalic 

 index ?.".. ') of moderate height (basion-bregma 13.f> cm.) and general 

 good development : it belonged to a person of aln>ut fifty-five years of 



J. I). Whitney. Aurlferou* UravrU .f tin- Sl<-rra NVvmla. l'T3. Cambridge. Maw.. 1879. 

 Mn William II. II. .lm.-~- l.v\ lew ..f tin- Kvtili-nrr relating to Aurlferoua Gravel Man In 

 California. Umithmmian i;<i>wt for 1K10. 405-400. Washington, 1901. 



