Prehistoric Skulls of Climhing Hill. 107 



Missouri river, wliicli Ave know was frequently from the 

 mountainous localities in Tennessee and Kentucky clear 

 up to the headwaters of the Missouri. Yet what signifies 

 these opportunities for intermingling of diverse tribes of 

 Indians, where as far as can be ascertained there were 

 no pigmy tribe or tribes from which prisoners could have 

 been secured? 



Then, again, these skeletons were exhumed from a 

 soil that was almost inaccessible to water or even mois- 

 ture, and were to all appearances from five to eight 

 hundred years old. All organic matter had long since 

 been removed by contact with the ground, and nothing 

 but the lim« remaining; so we think that the precise 

 classification of these finds is with the group of the 

 negroid pigmies regardless of how they came to be found 

 in a country inaccessible to tribes as we now find them, 

 and are anamolies to the surroundings by a bracheocep- 

 halic or round-headed Indian people. 



