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The middle lacerated foramina are mostly submedium to small; 
depression of petrous portions prevalently submedium to slight. 
The posterior lacerated or jugular foramina are, as usual, in a 
majority of the cases larger on the right side. Pterygo-basal foramina 
are scarce. 
Anomalies observed on the skulls pertain mostly to the basal 
structures, particularly the condyles and the sphenoidal foramina. 
Teeth.—Dentition was remarkably regular, but decay and loss of 
teeth in life were relatively more frequent than in other Indians; 
upper incisors, especially the middle, are shovel-shaped lingually, as 
usual in Indians. More or less wear of the teeth in the adults is 
present in every instance. Dental anomalies, while few in number, 
comprise a case of special interest: a perfect fusion of canine and 
incisor. 
THE BONES 
By reason of the care with which the bones were collected from the 
Minisink cemetery, those of the different adult skeletons were kept 
apart as found and are thus perfectly identifiable as to individuals. 
Excluding those of adolescents and children, there are present the 
bones of 32 adult skeletons, and in the majority.of cases these are 
almost complete. Of these 32 individuals, 17 were male and 15 
female, thus affording a fair series for comparison. 
The bones in general are practically normal and almost free from 
important anomalies. They indicate people of medium to somewhat 
above medium stature, and of good though not excessive muscular 
development. In their morphological features they approximate in 
many respects the bones of whites, yet differ in numerous interesting 
particulars. 
Although a number of the subjects represented by the skeletal 
remains were old people, there is an absence of light bones or of 
other evidences of senility. The proportion of such bones in modern 
whites is in fact much larger than among any of the Indians, either 
prehistoric or modern, a fact of considerable physiological importance. 
HumMeERUs 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 
There are present 46 adult humeri, mostly perfect and almost all — 
paired. The principal measurements of these are given in the follow- 
ing table: 
