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Doctor Yarrow in the vicinity of the ruins near Abiquiu, to which I 

 took occasion to refer on one of the preceding pages. Oue of them, bear- 

 ing the number 1178 in the catalogue, is that of a child about ten years 

 old. The other, marked 1179, is that of an adult, and exhibits the gen- 

 eral characters of a female. 



We shall first consider No. 1178, which is distorted about as much as 

 No. 2 ; but while the latter is deformed on its right side, the former is 

 compressed on its left, and is asymmetrical through its entire extent, 

 including the lower jaw. Viewed from behind, it is of almost quinque- 

 lateral shape, the two upper sides of the pentagon being formed by the 

 parietals sloping down slightly from the coronal suture to the tubers ; 

 the two lateral sides are formed partly by the parietals and the posterior 

 portionsof the squamosals, sloping from the parietal tubers to the mastoid 

 processes, which are very small and obtuse,while the base of the poly- 

 gon is formed by a line running obliquely from the left, zygomatic pro- 

 cess across the occipital to within two centimeters of the right mastoid ; 

 protuberance of o'cciput scarcely developed; superior and inferior curved 

 lines wanting ; muscular insertions weak. 



Owiug to the deformation of the skull, the two profile views are rather 

 different from each other. The right side of the cranial portion does not 

 present any extraordinary features, except toward the frontal region and 

 the adjoining facial portion. The left frontal tuber projects about one 

 centimeter above the right one, the whole left half of the frontal being 

 pressed forward, in consequence of which the right side seems to recede to 

 a considerable extent; ridge of the nasals slightly curved inward. There 

 is slight tendency to prognathism. The left profile shows the occipital 

 depressions in almost its whole extent, the lower and posterior portion 

 of the parietal being flat, almost concave instead of convex ; this is 

 also the case with the left portion of the occipital. The asymmetry of the 

 skull becomes not less striking in a facial view, in which case the frontal 

 hone recedes in an oblique direction from the left tuber to a short distance 

 behind the right one. The lower jaw partakes, in a similar manner, in 

 the distortion, its left half being also pressed forward, but less than the 

 corresponding half of the frontal bone. The lower border curved inward 

 and upward rather deeply near the symphyses, the curve descending 

 lower on the right side than on the left. 



Viewed from above, the skull is of an irregular oval form, the left 

 frontal tuber projecting beyond the general outline, and the posterior 

 portion of the parietal of the same side being compressed, so that the 

 right parietal tuber appears to be very prominent. 



Unfortunately the base is not complete; but, although the lower and 

 anterior portion of the occipital and the basilar process are missing, 

 there is evidence enough of the general distortion. The left mastoid 

 process is about one centimeter beyond the right one, and, although to 

 a less extent, we notice both the palate bone and the palate process of 

 the left upper maxilla to be pressed forward. 



Measurements. 



cm. 



Capacity 1213 



mm. 



Length 151 



Breadth 138 



Breadth of frontal HO 



Height* 



Frontal arch 8^1 



* The anterior margin of the foramen magnum being defective, the height could not 

 be ascertained. 



