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either free and mixed on the floor or were inhumed at but a slight 

 depth from the surface. These remains were reported upon in 1884. 



The main feature of the skulls is the exceptionally narrow and high 

 vault. In various respects they resemble the skulls of the Melanesians, 

 though they are even more dolichocephalic, but in others they resemble 

 those of some American Indians. Ten Kate says further : " I have 

 nothing in my collection of Lower California that would remind me 

 of more or less Melanesian types in the living. All the individuals I 

 saw had the characteristics of the various mixbloods and Indians that 

 are found in Mexico in general." "' " To which he adds : The old 

 authors, speaking of the Indians of the Peninsula, say that " these 

 much resembled other ' Mexicans ', and that there were large differ- 

 ences in stature and skin color I have seen but two individuals 



reputedly legitimate Indians, an old lady who was of a noted Indian 

 type such as may be found in almost any part of Mexico ", and a man, 

 of uncertain derivation. And if these two were Indians, " then surely 

 there are still to the south of La Paz many Indians, such as those 

 I met on the road and who call themselves ' gente de razon ' and con- 

 sequently Catholics, who presented Indian types much more marked 

 than those of the above two individuals." 



The main conclusions of Ten Kate in this article (1884) have been 

 so misrepresented that they must here be quoted in the original. 

 They are : 



1. II existait, dans la partie australe de la presqu'ile californienne et les lies 

 de la cote avoisinante, une race indigene dont le cractere le plus frappant est 

 la reunion de la dolichocephalie et I'hypsistenocephalie; 



2. Cette race se rapproche d'une cote des Melanesiens ; d'un autre cote, 

 des races americaines se rapprochant le plus de la race dolichocephale dont 

 le type de Lagoa Santa est le representant le plus ancien ; 



3. La race de la presqu'ile de la dite morphologie cephalique etait d'une 

 taille un peu au-dessus de la moyenne (i™, 65 environ). (Pp. 568-569). 



In 1887 Ten Kate published in Mexico a second and similar paper 

 on the anthropology of Lower California. After giving the measure- 

 ments of the seven skulls dealt with in his earlier report, and of some 



^' " Je n'ai rien dans mes souvenirs de la basse Calif ornie qui me rappelle des 

 types plus ou moins melanesiens observes sur le znmnt. Tous les indivdus 

 que j'ai vus avaient les traits de metis et d'Indiens si varies que Ton trouve 

 au Mexique en general." 



" " Plusieurs de ces caracteres se trouvent plus ou moins prononces sur des 

 cranes melanesiens et a en juger d'apres I'impression generate de notre serie, 



on croirait avoir affaire a des Melanesiens Les auteurs anciens ne nous 



decrivent pas le type des Pericues en particulier, mais bien celui des Indiens 

 de la peninsule en general. lis disent qu'ils ressemblent beaucoup aux autres 

 ' Mexicains ' et qu'il y avait de grandes differences de taille et de couleur de 

 la peau. Baegert a observe evidemment I'oeil bride chez les Guaycuri." 



