24 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 33 
processes, but the styloids were apparently not much developed, a 
condition often observed in the Indian. The petrous portions are 
seen in a moderate depression between the basilar process and the 
sphenoid, about as in the average Indian.¢ 
Ventrally may be seen a moderately high metopic crest ; impressions 
of brain convolutions are perceptible, especially over the orbital roof, 
but are not pronounced; the sella turcica is normal, the clinoids are 
rather stout, the anterior and posterior being united on the left: the 
dorsum sella shows in its superior border a deep (4 mm.) median 
notch. 
The thickness of the frontal bone is not greater than in many 
Indian crania (see measurements). 
There are traces of the nasal suture, but its exact state can not be 
determined; the naso-maxillary and the naso-frontal articulations 
seem to be patent on both sides; the malo-frontals show no oblitera- 
tion; there is no trace of metopic separation; the spheno-frontal, 
which can be seen on the left, seems to show some synostosis, but the 
spheno-malar and the spheno-temporal sutures appear open; there 
are no signs of obliteration in the coronal and in the right spheno- 
parietal suture, and the same statement applies to what remains of 
the right temporo-parietal and the temporo-occipital articulations. 
Irrespective of its large defects, the specimen shows remarkably 
few injuries, and it is wholly inconceivable that it should have been 
rolled about in a stream bed or subjected to pressure in gravel deposits. 
The measurements permitted by the condition of the skull are as 
follows: 
IDNEn Taye Taare | oahhanvoN ans. ee centimeters__ 10.1 
Diameter frontal maximum, about). 25. . 9 ee eee dos a1250 
Nasion=bregina are Seo ts see a eee eee eee do=s== sisal 
Nose: 
Height (nasion to lowest point of notch border )— 
TRS Et SUG 8S A eS ES ee Ra dou s2ee7459 
TELE SUC ee 2 he eee ee eee ee 02 om On 
BIRSE Gln, WOMNEb-ohanbhwn Rees Ses Ce ota B22 
Orbits: 
Height— 
Right «27 2-2. er oe Sa ee ee og ee ee ee do. 25 eeBes 
PETE = Sea A a ee Se OE ee Sea) 
Breadth (from dacryon)— 
RI ghG 22 ee etc ely Peary SA ies ie Oe ee pee ee ei doLs2= 430 
TWOiC 22. ee i ee ee ee ee do 399 
Interorbital. diameter: 22. ss. = ee eS ee ee eee GOs Bae 25) 
Greatest surface length of the left temporal (measured with a tape) do____ 9. 95 
Thickness of pone at frontal eminences. === ae millimeters__ 5 to6 
Maximum thickness of frontal bone, near bregma_________________ do Sas 
Diameter bizygomatie maximum, about —__-~~_-—_~~__--=—= centimeters__ 14.3 
“Tn undeveloped and low-form crania the inferior surface of the petrous bones is on a 
level with the neighboring surfaces, while in the best developed skulls of whites and 
other races the petrous portions appear Geep in a depression. 
