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of the American. Aborigines. 3 
remarks in another place. The materials of which these articles 
are formed, are jasper, quartz, granite stamed by copper, and clay 
slate, all showing that peculiar time-worn polish which such sub- 
stances acquire by long inhumation. 
The two skeletons were of a man asa a woman. “They 
had been buried on the surface of the ground and the earth raised 
over them. They lay on their backs with their feet to the west.” 
The male cranium presents, in every particular, the characteris- 
tics of the American race. |The forehead recedes less than usual 
in these people, but the large size of the jaws, the quadrangular 
orbits, and the width between the cheek Fig. 1." 
bones, are all’ remarkably developed ; 
while the rounded head, elevated vertex, — , 
vertical occiput and great inter-parietal 
diameter, (which is no less than 5:7 in- 
ches,) render this skull a — of nation- 
al conformation. (Fig. 1 
The female head sponioats the same 
general character, but is more elongated 
in the occipital region, and of more deli- 
cate proportions throughout.* 
Similar in general conformation to these are all the mound and 
other skulls I have received since the publication of my work 
on American Crania, viz. five from the country of the Araucos, 
in Chili, from Dr. Thomas 8. Page of Valparaiso; six of ancient 
Otomies, Tlascalans and Chechemecans, from Don J. Gomez de 
la Cortina of the city of Mexico; three from near Tampa, in 
Florida, from Dr. R. S. Holmes, U. 8. A.; one from a mound 
on Blue river, Illinois, from Dr. Brown of St. Louis; and four 
sent me by Lieut. Meigs, U. S. A., who obtained them from 
the immediate vicinity of Detroit, in Michigan. To these may 
be added two others taken from ancient graves near Fort Chartres, 
in Illinois, by Dr: Wistlizenus of St. Louis; a single cranium 
from the cemetery of Santiago de Tlatelolco, near the city of 
Mexico, which I have received through the kindness of the Baron 
von Gerolt, Prussian minister at Washington ; and another very 
* We take this occasion to Shane that skulls taken from the mounds, should at 
once be saturated wel sneer: of gine or gum, or with any kind of varniohs by 
whic ti E is effectually prevented. 
