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NASAL BONES 
The chief feature of the nasal bones to which the student usually 
directs attention is their breadth. There is on this continent a fre- 
quency of especially narrow nasals among the Eskimo. Among the 
Indians, narrow nasal bones occur only exceptionally; more com- 
monly they are rather broad, though the breadth is not excessive. 
In the present series we find them fairly broad in all the males and 
in two of the females; narrow (not excessively) in only two of the 
females. 
XXIII. MUNSEE CRANIA: NASAL BONES 
7 males 12 females 
Cases Per cent Cases Per cent 
WB 905210 Lugs i Radel Cot Lae hn ads a RI, ea ie aI Ge ea, ia 100 2 17 
Median: fC OTe aE SSR EE EEK Pee a re eee 8 67 
INSTIOW 2 22cec = Se ou sc ee eey ioe ae ees ak ene cs awe ae eR ee ee | ee 2 17 
NASAL APERTURE 
The features of chief interest with respect to the nasal aperture are 
the fulness or sharpness of the inferior borders, the presence or 
absence of subnasal fossz or simian gutters, and pronounced ‘asym- 
metry. Among the 19 Munsee skulls in which these features can 
be studied, there are only one instance of moderate grooves and 
three cases of moderate asymmetry. The lower borders are fairly 
sharp, more so than the average in many other Indians. 
XXIV. MUNSEE CRANIA: LOWER BORDERS OF NASAL APERTURE 
7 males 12 females 
Cases Per cent | Cases Per cent 
Normal; fairly: sharpie .csusse ces acct. See eee ee ee 4 57 11 | 92 
JD GOV N29 94S ME a ee oe Son ets con pop Pn ty Pehle Mia et S| ee > 2 bee 12. eae eee 
ASyMMOEtriC 42 24:3. Xs3-. SLO PERE Ee oo ce Ce 2 29 1 | 8 
Simianerooves. 522 5.045 ote < ag a ap ee A 1 14. | .22%- 4.5: eee 
NASAL SPINE 
On the whole the nasal spine reaches its most pronounced develop- 
ment, especially in height, in the modern whites. It is rudimentary 
or absent in the anthropoid apes, and seldom reaches marked devel- 
opment in the yellow-brown and black races. Among Indians it 
ranges from rudimentary or very low to fairly well developed. In 
the Munsee, as shown by the accompanying figures, it was mostly 
very low to submedium. 
