ON A SERIES OP N~EPALESE SKULLS. 99" 



Gurung Tribe (4 skulls). 



The Gurung tribe is exemplified by one skull of an adult male, and by 

 three skulls of boys, in which the dentition has not gone beyond the acqui- 

 sition of the first true molar, with the deciduous series. These skulls show 

 a slight family likeness in the degree of flatness of the nasal bones, with a 

 slight general prominence of the interorbital region, and a moderate pro- , 

 gnathism. In the adult male the forehead passes without indent into the nose, 

 as in the Grecian type. The frontal suture is persistent ; but it has been 

 obliterated in the younger skulls. In the skull of the youth (lg,g, g, g, g, g), 

 on the right side, the frontal joins the squamosal ; on the left side a wormian 

 intervenes between the alisphenoid and parietal : in the others the usual junc- 

 tion of these bones obtains. The chin is prominent in all. The length of the 

 adult skull is 7 inches (178*0) ; its breadth is 5 inches 8 lines (145*0). In 

 this skull the squamosals are abruptly prominent below the parietals, and a 

 great part of the suture between the ex- and super-occipitals remains. The 

 following are the dimensions of three of these skulls : — 



Gurung : males. 



Length of cranium .. 

 Breadth of cranium.. 



Adult, 

 in. lines, mil. 

 7 (178-0) 



Youth. 



Deciduous & ml. 



n. lines, mil. 



Child. 



Deciduous. 



in. lines, mil. 



6 5 (163-0) 5 7 (144-0) 



5 8 (145-0) I 5 6i (140-0) | 5 H (1300) 



Anomalies. — In the boy's skull (1 h, h, h, h, h, h), with m 1 and the de- 

 ciduous set of teeth, the right condyloid cup of the atlas has coalesced with 

 the occipital condyle, and the rest of the atlas is so closely applied to the 

 margin of the great foramen, as to indicate an ultimate, if not speedy coales- 

 cence of that part of the vertebra with the occipital one. 



Uraon Tribe (2 skulls). 



The skulls of this tribe are of adult males; they show a rather narrow 

 elongate form of cranium, with prognathous maxillaries. In one the cheek- 

 bones project, in the other not. In both the nasals project and are short, 

 with the usual indent between their root and the forehead. In the slightly 

 larger skull the length of the cranium is 7 inches 1-L line (182*0) ; the breadth 

 of ditto is 5 inches i line (130*0). The alisphenoids meet the parietals, and 

 the frontal suture is obliterated, in both skulls. 



Shopa or Sokpa Tribe (2 skulls). 



The cranium in one of these skulls is short and broad, in the other it is 

 long and narrow ; the malars are somewhat prominent and the jaws slightly 

 prognathous in both. In the dolichocephalic variety the length of the cranium 

 is 7 inches 5 lines (188*0); its breadth is 5 inches 6 lines (140*0). The 

 alisphenoids join the parietals, and the frontal suture is obliterated in both 

 skulls. 



Dimal Tribe. 



The ' Dimal' skull most resembles those of the Gurung tribe, especially in 

 the form of the interorbital part. This skull is chiefly remarkable as exem- 

 plifying the rare disease of hypertrophous thickening of the parietal bones. 



Bodo Tribe. 



This shows the dolichocephalic or elongate cranial form, with prognathous 

 jaws and almost vertical, not projecting, malar bones. The nasals are 

 slightly prominent, with a little depression between them and the forehead. 



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