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FOSSIL MEN. 



foreign intermixture or by long ages of civilized cul- 

 ture. A similar but somewhat different style of refine- 

 ment in the American countenance appears in the 

 Inca race of Peru. It is remarkable in connection 







Fig. 10. ALLEGHAN, TOLTECAN, PERUVIAN, AND MODEBN CEOW HEADS. 



(a) Toltecan from Palenque. 



(b) Mound-builder on a pipe. 



(c) Crow. 



(d) Mound-builder on a vase. 



(e) Peruvian on a vase. 



(After Wilson, Foster, and Catlin.) 



with this that the Alleghans and Toltecans are the 

 oldest North American aborigines of whom we have 

 any record. Whatever age may be assigned to the 



