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skulls, namely, the brachycephals of Arkansas and farther south, 
and also among the skulls of recent Indians. Two such speci- 
mens, both from the Davenport Academy collection, are, the 
first, a normal, undeformed, Arkansas mound skull (plate xt, 6) 
and the other a skull of a modern Sioux (plate xu, 0), who died as a 
captive near Davenport. A recent examination of the great cranial 
collection in the U. S. National Museum showed the presence of the 
following additional skulls with remarkably low foreheads: 
Catalogue 
numbers 
Krom Indian burials. in Calliformins 222 = = 22s ee 22 il oe eee 
241912, 241916, 241927, 241939, 241998, 242009, 242014, 242148, 242200 
MOM MOMMA S) BOE INOE ty WD) all ee ee 228876, 228878 
Hrom .avmound in’ BNOridas = Sasa sar Bee sens ee ee pee 16333 
From, a ‘mound: int MWlinois8: 2. 2.2 Se ee Be ee ee 13677 
Fromya. nound in. WNnois= = 222 Wee ae ee es ee eee 242989 
Hromaymound mear Ailton) DIO 1S ee 243007 
Brom a mound imiOraneerco umitiys) Tre petn sys ee 248855 
IMO Ta CY ioVKoynpoyol uae poUUKKAVUUKE, Moy es ee ee 225296 
Kromca moundsat-bagle Point, Vowels. = ee ee 243845 
Mromia, mound at Albany, Towa = eee ror 
JAC Iai SINGS Sk Se 8 2 SE Os ek ee ee 243544 
Brom aiburialarChoptank: Marylandi= 25. 225 a6 jesse Se eee 2438933 
1M oyody GY JoyDUmEAHL what AY OISSYOU we ee SUN ee ee Se ee aces 
AgPiesan. Montana: 0 =< sete ce ee ee oe Sees 2 243673 
> , 
From a burial at Durango, New Mexico______________ . ee 243275 
Krom) a bunialeat Pistolanivers OLner ous === == ae 243602 
rom 7a burial eistol niver, Orecone 222) ee eee 2436038 
A Patties NCV age 2a. aS 0 a 5s 2 ee ee ee 243817 
A Pawmee, Kansas. oo o.oo 8) es ee ee 24353] 
Ay Ponca eisansase= ae a= 2 te eee eee Pe ee 225097 
rf 
A SiOuxs Dalota: 22 s4 sea ae eee ee a ee Ji eee 225238 
er 
Ae STOUR, (DAKOTAS 22. ha Oe eS ee ee eee 243710 
NOC MU pica ea see ee abe ae ee eT ee 226084 
Eroma burial at Bagley, Wiscons) Ne] ==) 52 22 ee ee 
Rrom-ar burialin Wisconsin] oss 3) aa eee eee ee 243290 
In most of these cases the lowness of the forehead and often also 
the volume of the ridges equal those of skull no. 6 from Long’s hill, 
and in several instances they exceed this specimen in these particular 
characters; no. 136778 shows even a lower forehead than the Gilder 
Mound skull, known as no. 8 (plates x, a, x1, a; figures 12, 14, 16). 
It is thus seen that the Gilder mound skulls are by no means unique 
in their low-order form, and that no definite conclusion as to their 
antiquity can be based on this inferiority or peculiarity of type 
alone. The occasional and apparently nonpathological occurrence 
of such forms in the males, particularly among the mesocephalic to 
dolichocephalic ethnic element“ of the upper Missouri and Missis- 
“Suggesting in many ways the Californians; compare the writer's Contribution to 
the Physical Anthropology of California, University of California Publications, American 
Archeology and Ethnology, Iv, no. 2, Berkeley, 1906. 
