50 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [ BULL. 62 
XXXVIII. MUNSEE CRANIA: MOLARS; CUSPIDARY FORMULA—Continued 
UprER MoLars—Continued 
FEMALES 
First molar Second molar | Third molar 
Number of Number of Number of 
Cusps teeth Per cent || Cusps teeth Per cent Cusps teeth Per cent 
examined examined examined 
4 14 100 3 1/2 13 100 3 2 15 
23/2 1 8 
2 2/2 1 8 
Pursed 9 69 
LOWER MOLARS 
MALES 
5 4 100 | 5 1 33 5 2 50 
41/2 1 33 42/2 1 25 
4 1 33 4 1 25 
FEMALES 
5 1 100 | 41/2 2 67 | 4 4 67 
4 1 33 | Pursed 2 33 
It will be observed that the 29 first upper molars have all four 
regular cusps, while all the first lower molars have five. The second 
upper molars vary in the males, but show all three ordinary and one 
small cusp (the posterior lingual) in the females. The wisdom teeth 
fluctuate considerably in both sexes, both as to size and to form. 
SuMMARY OF MEASUREMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE CRANIA 
A summary of the results of the examination and measurements 
of the Munsee skulls includes the following points of interest: 
A number of the specimens show traces of intentional fronto- 
occipital deformation,, which is completely absent among other 
Indian tribes of the northeastern and Middle Atlantic States; and 
several of the skulls are of distinctly extraneous type. Both of these 
conditions point to admixture, which in all probability came from 
the southwestward and may have been due to Shawnee influence 
during the last few decades of the occupancy by the Munsee of the 
upper Delaware. 
The crania that can be safely accepted as belonging to the Munsee 
themselves, and which are not deformed, are characterized by mod- 
erate dolichocephaly to mesocephaly and a high vault. They are 
not thick-walled and show fair capacity. . 
