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BUEEAU OF AMEEICAN" ETHNOLOGY 



[bull. 52 



''2. Man is therefore not only an old guest in America, but he is 

 also furnished, already in diluvial times, with the same unmistakable 

 racial characteristics as he presents tliis day. 



"3, These racial characteristics, it necessarily follows from this 

 evidence, originated even earlier. 



"4. These racial characteristics were not further modified by 

 environment. 



"5. On the basis of the above observations and from the zoologic 

 standpoint, a future change of racial characteristics of mankind is in 

 the highest degree improbable." 



In the present state of knowledge of the Lagoa Santa caves 

 material, of the Indian in general, of American geology, and of the 

 imperfect morphologic stability of the human organism, these opin- 

 ions can have of course but little more than historic value. 



In 1885 a brief report on the whole collection of the Sumidouro 

 CaA^e human remains was published by ten Kate,^ who had personally 

 examined all the crania preserved at Copenhagen; other bones than 

 the skulls were apparently not considered. 



The crania were recognized by ten Kate as having close analogy 

 with the Indian skulls of Lower California. With the probable excep- 

 tion of two, all the specimens are masculine. Their principal 

 measurements are as follows : 



Measurements of the Lagoa Santa skulls by ten Kate^ 



1 ten Kate, H., Sur lescranes deLagoa-Santa; in Bull. Soc.d'Anthr. Paris, : 



2 Table rearranged by A. H. 



' ser.,^Tn, 1S85, pp. 240-244. 



