38 A SUGGESTION FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK 



But though the Califoruia, Saugus, and Eskimo skulls are ail 

 long-headed, relationship is not probable because while the 

 Eskimo skulls show a vertical index greater than the cranial 

 index the other skulls show the reverse. 



The mound builders are so extremely round-headed as to 

 sanction the idea that artificial distortion of the skull may have 

 increased the average indices in the table here given. And now 

 we come to skulls of a shape so peculiar that Prof. Hedlicka 

 has prionounced them (at least as strong evidence of), the type 

 of a race new to America anthropologists. I refer to the two 

 skulls found at Trenton and Burlington, IST. J., the average 

 cranial and vertical indices of which are 80.6 and 64. While 

 round-headed, the vertical indices are far below that of any 

 skulls yet found in America, even among the long-heads, and 

 thus closely resemble the Bushmen of South Africa, Their cranial 

 capacity, however, averages a little higher than that of the 

 Bushmen, viz. 1310 to 1270 cubic centimeters. Whether a race 

 as low as the Bushmen ever lived in America in post-glacial 

 times is a question yet to be answered, perhaps from ISTova 

 Scotia. 



But back of this lies the presumed pre-glacial or inter-glacial 

 man whose skulls are said to be of the long-headed type. Among 

 the problems yet to be solved are the following: 



1st. Anthroj)iometrical study of the earliest Micmac re- 

 mains. 



2nd. Possible extension of long-headed races to jSTova 

 Scotia in pre-Micmac times. 



3rd. The former existence in Nova Scotia of savages of 

 the Bushmen type. 



4th. The existence in l^ova Scotia of a long-headed race 

 of inter-glacial or pre-glacial age. 



Grouped around these are many questions of affinity and 



pre-historic intercourse that we could aid in throwing light on. 



When we look back on the surprising revelations given to 



the world by cave excavation alone, there is good reason for 



