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skulls, namely, the l>rachvcephals of Arkansas and farther xmth. 

 and also among the skulls of recent Indians. Two such -peci- 

 mens, both from the Davenport Academy collectio.ii, arc. t lie- 

 first, a normal, undeformed, Arkansas mound skull (plate xm, b) 

 and the other a skull of a modern Sioux (plate xn, &), who died a- a 

 captive near Davenport. A recent examination of the great cranial 

 collection in the U. S. National Museum showed the presence of the 

 following additional skulls with remarkably low foreheads: 



Catalogue 

 numbers 



From Indian burials in California.. 22."H7<>. 241 111, 



241912, 2419115, 241927, 241939, 241998, 242009, 242014, 242148, IMJJix. 



From mounds in North Dakota __. 22887(5, 228878 



From a mound in Florida-. it;:;:;:; 



From a mound in Illinois l.".f.77N 



From a mound in Illinois 21- 



From a mound near Alton, Illinois 24:'.x>7 



From a mound in Orange county, Indiana.. 243865 



From a mound near Sculleyville. Iowa__ 225290 



From a mound at Eagle Point, Iowa._ 243845 



From a mound at Albany, Iowa 243847 



A Ka\v, Kansas. _ 243544 



From a burial at Choptauk, Maryland.. 243933 



From a burial in Missouri 218993 



A Piegan, Montana.. 24:',t;7:t 



From a burial at Durango, New Mexico __ 24.'? - J7.' 



From a burial at Pistol river. Oregon.. 243602 



From a burial at Pistol river, Oregon.. 24.".r,<i:; 



A Paiute, Nevada.. 243817 



A Pawnee, Kansas. . 243531 



A Ponca, Kansas.. 2254KI7 



A Sioux, Dakota.. 225238 



A Sioux, Dakota.. 243710 



A Ute, Utah__ 22G084 



From a burial at Hagley, Wisconsin.. 207S74 



From a burial in Wisconsin 243290 



In most of these cases the lowness of the forehead and often also 

 the volume of the ridges equal those of skull no. G from Long's hill, 

 and in several instances they exceed this specimen in these particular 

 characters; no. 136778 shows even a lower forehead than the Gilder 

 Mound skull, known as no. 8 (plates x, a, xi, a; figures 12, 14, 16). 



It is thus seen that the Gilder mound skulls are by no means unique 

 in their low-order form, and that no definite conclusion as to their 

 antiquity can be based on this inferiority or peculiarity of type 

 alone. The occasional and apparently nonpathological occurrence 

 of such forms in the males, particularly among the mesocephalic to 

 dolichocephalic ethnic element of the upper Missouri and Missis- 



Suggesting In many ways the Californlans ; compare the writer's Contribution to 

 the Physical Anthropology of California, 1'ninrxilii of California Publications, American, 

 Archeoloyv ond Ethnology, iv, no. 2, Berkeley, 1906. 



