Prehistoric Skulls of Clinihing Hill. 105 



refer to the North American Indians, who were and are 

 a round-headed or bracheocephalic race, with a facial 

 angle almost a right angle. 



The skulls here exhumed belonged to a long-headed 

 or dolichocephalic race of dwarfs. The three skulls are 

 identical in the plan of construction and were similar to 

 a mycrocepshalic (or a person with an undeveloped cere- 

 brum), being about the dimensions of that of a child of 

 six or seven years of the negro race. That these skulls 

 were those of adult persons was proven by the complete 

 ossification of the cranial sutures, as well as the thick- 

 ness of the cranial bones, which are much thicker than 

 those of an adult of the white race. 



These skulls are boat-shaped or compressed, as it 

 were, laterally, the frontal bone being about one-third 

 narrower than the occipital bone. We are certain that 

 these skulls were not flattened latterly by mechanical 

 means, for the reason that the Indian tribe known as 

 Flatheads, now inhabitants of the state of Montana, 

 compress the head ante-posteriorly and not laterally, 

 which causes the head to resemble a cone or sugar-loaf 

 appearance. 



The long bones found of these skeletons were only 

 fragmentary, but sufficient number of the fragments 

 were secured to demonstrate the fact that these people 

 were not over four feet tall. The cranium, after being- 

 built up with the fragments, is nearlj^ complete in its 

 superior aspect, but the face, upper and lower jaws and 

 under surface of the head are entirely wanting. No 

 teeth were found or at least saved by those who 

 exhumed the skeletons. 



It is not known that there ever was a pigmy race in 

 North America, or at least there exists no legends among 

 any of the aboriginal races to this effect. Wherever a 

 pigmy people are found there is such a correspondence in 

 anatomical makeup as to identify them as belonging to 

 one race. They are all dolichoeephalic or long-headed. 

 The negroids, a pigmy race found in Africa; the negri- 

 Toes found in Luzon, Philippine Islands, and the Ainoes 

 found in Japan undoubtedly belong to the same dwarf 

 familv. 



