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ean be seen, in no way extraordinary. The teeth are of moderate size, much 
worn; the molars show diminishing size from front to rear, as in recent skulls. 
The enamel is lusterless and cracked; the dentine is also cracked. The bone 
is not fossilized, but has the appearance of greater age than any of the other 
specimens. 
PORTION OF LOWER JAW “% 
Found in the Gilder mound by Professor Barbour at a depth of 5 feet. The 
only part remaining is the left vertical ramus. This is 5.7 em. high, 3.55 cm. 
broad at its narrowest part, and but moderately thick; it shows a notch of 
good depth and a feminine angle. There is no perceptible fossilization. 
About 200 yards north of the eminence from which skulls nos. 1-8 
were recovered, another similar elevation on the ridge was dug into 
in 1894 by the Parker, Morris, and Huntington party; some human 
skulls and other bones were found here, but nothing was preserved. 
Still farther north, in the west bank of the wagon road that runs 
along the ridge, toward the end of 1906 Mr. Gilder found, not more 
than 2 feet below the surface, three defective female skulls. Two of 
these are apparently dolichocephalic, while one—the best preserved— 
is mesocephalic (cephalic index 79.3). These crania are all darker 
in color than the specimens from the Gilder mound—a fact which 
may be due to their more superficial position; the surfaces of all 
three show many minute pits and furrows, root-erosions. In skull 
no. x, the occipital squama above the foramen magnum has been cut 
away on each side of the median line, leaving two quite symmet- 
rical curved defective portions. This suggests the cutting in the 
Joseph skull (no. 6, Gilder mound) in the same location. 
HU MERI 
Five entire bones (of which two form a pair) and 12 pieces of distinct 
humeri, recovered from the mound by Mr. Gilder at various depths not ascer- 
tained. All show good, but not extraordinary, sizes and dimensions, and in 
flatness of the shaft, its shape, and in the frequency of perforation of the 
septum between the coronoid and the olecranon fosse, approximate closely 
the humeri of Indians. <A rare feature in two of the specimens, although one 
not unknown in Indians, is the presence of ridges 3 and 4 mm. high, respec- 
tively, at the highest point, in the locality of the supracondyloid process. None 
of the bones show any trace of fossilization. On three of them are seen border 
scratches, cut-marks, or marks resulting from the gnawing of rodents—the 
seratches, smaller cuts, and teeth marks can not well be distinguished one from 
another. 
«Pictured in Professor Barbour’s paper in the Records of the Past, 11, pt. 2, 45, Feb- 
ruary, 1907. 
