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XI. MUNSEE CRANTA: TEMPORO-PARIETAL REGION 
9 males | 12 females 
Cases Per cent Cases Per cent 
Rath Oty oe Fe oe oe Sak ak otis womens pantie te tieaiciae ole ae ae oe ae ee a ee 3 25 
Moedinm convexity. = Ge. won oceanre, cease ea ins ceamaesnicaeeans 6 67 8 67 
Wathen take) eaten eke ee ee | 3 33 1 8 
OCCIPUT 
When we eliminate all the cases that show any trace of artificial 
flattening of the back of the skull, there remain only a few specimens 
for observation. Among these, three-fourths show medium con- 
vexity of the occiput, while in one-fourth the region is protruding. 
There is no difference in this respect in the two sexes. The external 
occipital protuberance and the occipital ridges do not show especially 
strong development in any case, and barring a single instance of the 
occurrence of an Inca bone, which will be spoken of in another con- 
nection, there are no anomalies of this region to be recorded. 
XII. MUNSEE CRANIA: OCCIPUT (IN THE UNDEFORMED) 
4 males 4 females 
Cases Per cent Cases Per cent 
Modinm promimnencetr cue on Aone cteen eee oon eee ees ae aeees 3 75 3 75 
PROUICIN Re ais Sole eh cpa ue hanes Maw aes apne Sawa ee what awe ae 1 25 1 25 
Blichtlvasvmmoiriess nce cach cru dese ca acc ncte semen tetas 1 (25) 1 (25) 
SUTURES: SERRATION 
The serration of the cranial sutures is of interest for the reason 
that in the skulls of whites and in superior skulls generally the knit- 
ting is often, though not invariably, quite complex, while in the major- 
ity of the skulls among the retarded races it is more or less simple and 
may occasionally be nearly absent. For the sake. of simplicity in 
recording the nature of the sutures the writer refers to the serration 
as “‘medium,’’ or about as it averages in whites; ‘‘submedium,” 
which is self-explanatory; and ‘poor,’ or such as approaches a 
sumple wavy line. Among the Indians the sutures range mostly 
from submedium to more simple, and the Munsee skulls form no 
exception. As seen from the actual data not one case reaches the 
standard of medium complexity in all the sutures, while in a large 
proportion of the specimens the serration of most, if not all, is de- 
cidedly inferior. No special difference exists in this respect between 
the skulls of different sizes. 
