76 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY {BULL 33 
exposed during the little digging that was done. There were found 
also several channels, left by the decay of roots, which passed deep 
down into the loess. One small phalanx and two slivers of bone 
were discovered in situ in the exposure previously made by Barbour, 
one of the slivers occurring at a depth of 5, the phalanx at nearly 
6, and the other shver at a depth of 74 feet from the surface. What 
were pointed to as excavations outside of the mound were difficult 
to distinguish as such, there being no lnes of demarkation to indicate 
the limits of the mound. 
EXAMINATION OF THE BONES 
SKULL No. 1 
A past-middle age, masculine, moderate sized, slightly asymmetric, but not 
pathological cranium, found by R. F. Gilder, about 3 feet deep in the Gilder 
mound. Large portions of the right side and of the base are wanting; part of 
the left side has been repaired, but warping prevented a good restoration. 
Color pale yellowish, agreeing with that of other specimens from the mound ; 
there are a few spots of slight black discoloration, such as are met with on 
many of the other specimens from this locality. There is no trace of fossiliza- 
tion, in fact the bones appear quite recent. 
The skull is nearly dolichocephalic. The angles of all the planes are 
rounded. The antero-posterior surface-are is elliptical and shows no distinct 
summit. The supraorbital ridges are of approximately medium masculine pro- 
portions, and extend over but little more than the median half of each supra- 
orbital space. The forehead is not high, but presents a fairly well-marked 
vaulting; the left side is slightly more anterior than the right. There is but 
little sagittal elevation. The temporal regions present no special features; 
the temporal ridges are not prominent, and their nearest approach to the 
median line is 5.5 em. on the right and 6.1 cm. on the left side. The occiput, 
moderately convex, shows a pronounced, but not excessive, superior crest, 
and marked depressions for the attachment of the smaller recti muscles; the 
right side is slightly more prominent than the left. The right mastoid (left 
mastoid wanting) is of moderate masculine size. The glenoid fossze, which 
are well preserved, are of ordinary form and good depth. The serration of 
the sutures approaches, especially in the lambdoid, about the medium form, 
as observed in whites. In the right half of the lambdoid are two small and 
two larger sutural bones. Obliteration has advanced externally in the coronal 
below the temporal ridges, and in the posterior half of the sagittal, with traces 
in the lambdoid; ventrally the three sutures are wholly occluded, with the 
exception of small end portions of the lambdoid. The thickness of the left 
parietal ranges from 4 to 6 mm. 
A portion of the face, separated, shows an apparently mesorhynic nose, 
moderate alveolar prognathigm, somewhat prominent malars, and well-marked 
submalar fosse. The lower jaw (somewhat damaged) is of moderate mascu- 
line size and massiveness, with chin slightly squarish and well protruding; 
diameter bigonial 10.5, vertical height at symphisis 3.3 em.; the angles show 
rather strong effects of muscular attachment. The teeth in both jaws are of 
medium size and, so far as can be seen, of ordinary form; they are all much 
worn off. The enamel is everywhere of good luster and uncracked. On the 
