248 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 52 



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SlcuU No. 2. — The cranium of a female, probably adult, exact age 

 not determinable; base and jaws missing (fig. 47). 



The dorsal surface of the specimen is covered with a thin peUicle of 

 grayish-white calcareous matter and a less pronounced deposit of the 

 same nature is seen all over the ventral surface. The bone on frac- 

 ture is cream-white and probably largely devoid of organic matter, 

 but it is not heavy or petrified. 



There is no deformation or disease. Over the glabella and lower 

 ])art of the frontal are seen a few clusters of superficial, small, straight 

 or curving grooves, apparently made by the teeth of small rodents; 



Fig. 47. Ovejero skull No. 2 (side view). 



the depth of the most pronounced of these grooves does not exceed 

 1 mm. 



The parts present include the frontal (damaged), the larger part of 

 the right and a small part of the left parietal, the right temporal 

 (defective) and a part of the left temporal with the mastoid. The 

 specimen is well reconstructed, so far as it goes, from 13 pieces; the 

 right squama is restored in mastic. 



The skull was of moderate feminine dimensions, and in form is 

 either highly mesocephalic or somewhat brachycephalic, and of medium 

 height. 



