REPORT ON А COLLECTION OF CRANIA FROM ARKANSAS. 
(Made, and donated to the National Museum, by Mr. Clarence B. Moore.) 
By Aves HRDLICKA. 
(In charge of the Division of Physical Anthropology, U. S. National Museum. ) 
The collection in question consists of twelve more or less perfect skulls, four 
of which are marked as coming from “near Menard mound, Arkansas Co., Ark.,” 
while six were exhumed “ near Greer, Jefferson Co.," the same State. 
All the specimens present about the same degree of conservation. They are 
all of much the same yellowish color, fragile, largely devoid of animal matter, but 
not mineralized. Two of the skulls are represented by the frontal bone only, and 
of the others three lack the lower jaw. Their original and Museum numbers, with 
identification as to sex and estimate of the age of the individuals, are as follows : 
MENARD SKULLS. 
Orig. No. Museum No. BE... Approximate age of person. 
249,914 male 55-60 y. 
“Бала! 10” 249,915 male 50-60 y. 
т 249,916 female 30-35 y. 
249,917 female adolescent. 
GREER SKULLS. 
* Burial 6” 249,918 female 35 y. 
mE 249,919 male 55-60 y. 
E 249,920 female 40 y. 
dE 249,921 male (?) 35 y. 
IRE is 249.922 female (?) 45 y. 
5. ug 249,923 female 35 y. 
mor у: 249,924 female 40 y. 
iE 249,925 ° female 35 y. 
Several of the skulls show signs of injury in life, or of disease. Thus, in 
249,915 (Menard), a hyperostosis of the plate that forms its floor occludes entirely 
the right external auditory meatus, while on the left side there is a similar condi- 
tion in an advanced stage; in 249,919 (Greer), there are three scars of old lesions 
of unknown nature, one, of moderate size and irregular form, anteriorly near the 
right frontal eminence, a trace of a similar one in nearly the same location on the 
opposite side, and a large scar over the upper third of the right parieto-occipital 
articulation; in No. 249,920 (Greer), there is a larger (3 x 2 em.) scar, resembling 
in nature those in the preceding case, on the left frontal eminence; in No. 249,921 
(Greer), a large symmetrical area over the top and back of each parietal shows 
