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CureEF DESCRIPTIVE FEATURES 
The skulls are of good size, but otherwise are characterized by 
moderate development. There is no massiveness, no heavy supra- 
orbital arches or crests, no heavy jaws. It is plain that they did 
not belong to a tribe of great huntsmen or warriors. 
The frontal region, though prevalently somewhat low in the females, 
in a large majority of the cases is well arched; the zygomez are not 
excessively broad, the malar bones not heavy. The nose is rather 
short, the face only mildly prognathic. The dental arches, as m the 
majority of Indians, are very regular, and the same applies to the 
medium-sized teeth. The vault of the skull from above is either 
ovoid (58 per cent) or elliptical (42 per cent), while the outline of the 
norma posterior approaches more or less the pentagonal. 
In addition there may be mentioned an unusual scarcity of 
Wormian bones and an equal sparsity of marked anomalies. These 
and other features are treated in detail in another part of this paper. 
(See pp. 35, 47.) 
MEASUREMENTS 
The measurements! offer many points of interest, although, so far 
as the vault is concerned, they are considerably interfered with by 
artificial deformation in some of the specimens. As in certain 
former reports by the writer, they will be dealt with in order accord- 
ing to their significance. 
FORM OF THE VAULT 
The measurements relating to the form of the vault comprise the 
maximum length and breadth, and the basion-bregma height, with 
the resultant percentage-relations or indexes. The details are given 
in the accompanying table. Although the number of undeformed 
specimens in good condition is small, it will be seen (a) that there 
is an absence of extremes in the several dimensions, (b) that the 
crania range in. type from dolichocephalic to mesocephalic, and (ce) 
that they show good height. Asa result of the latter, both the 
height-length and the height-breadth indices are high, though corre- 
sponding well with those of many other Indian tribes and those of 
numerous other branches of the yellow-brown race. Comparisons 
will be found in the second part of this report, which deals with the 
Eastern Indians in general. 
1 Allmeasurements presented in this report were taken personally by the writer, with proved instruments 
and duecare. Unless otherwise noted, the methods follow strictly the international agreements of Monaco 
and Geneva. 
