ошл 
REPORT ON A COLLECTION OF CRANIA FROM ARKANSAS. 559 
signs of prolonged congestion, resulting in slight hyperplasia of the surface bone 
layer; finally, No. 249,922 shows an old scar in the large inion depression which 
exists in this case, and in one part of this sear the bone is perforated, the irregular 
opening measuring 6 x 5 millimeters. All these scars suggest syphilitic lesions, 
but they are all healed and there is a total absence of the characteristic syphilitic 
ulceration of the bone. Besides the just mentioned conditions, it is noticeable 
that dental caries was more prevalent than is usual among the Indians. 
Three of the Menard and three of the Greer crania show various degrees of 
artificial, intentional deformation of the ** flathead” type, and one additional Greer 
skull (249,922) presents a lateral occipital flattening. Specimens 249,917, '20, '21 
and “25 are free from deformation; in 249,915 and 7995 the frontal compression 18 
of so hght a grade that it does not affect materially the general shape and meas- 
urement of the skulls. 
Anomalies of structure are observable in a number of cases, those more worthy 
of mention being as follows: An epactal bone, 4.5 x 9.9 em. in surface measure- 
ments, exists in 249,920; and there is, in 249,918, a somewhat rudimentary atlas, 
with complete neural arch, fused entirely with the occipital. 
The anthropological characteristics of the skulls from the two localities are 
found on examination to be practically identical. They are so close that there is a 
strong probability of their proceeding not only from the same general type, but 
even from the same tribe of people, and they can be legitimately dealt with as one 
group only. 
MEASUREMENTS AND DESCRIPTION. 
Form.—The undeformed skulls of this collection are all decidedly brachy- 
cephalic, and several of the deformed specimens give plain indication that they 
belong to the same type. The skulls are also all relatively high. The individual 
measurements and indices showing these conditions are as follows : 
NIA RELATIVE TO THEIR SHAPES. 
Gp | 
| | Diamat ; M. ! TM еты 
Museum || в 0| antero | Башан | Мел | Cephalic | "ms | Bresdin 
NUMBER P | к maximum | height | index index | index 
à; | cm. cm. cm. 
249,915 | Male 17.8 | 15.4 14.3 86.5 | 80.3 92.9 
ЕН С БСН EN ee ЛИНН БИЕ 
D V RN GU. перс E) | | 
249,919 | Male 16.5 1487 ы 14.6 89.7 88.5 98.6 
| | | | | E 
к u.a peg E uU жаза a IC ENERO ea Loss MERCI 
| | | | 
249,920 Female 16.2 | 14.5 | 13.9 89.5 | 85.6 95.9 
| | | | 
249,921 | Male (?) 17.2 | 14.5 | FAIS | $4.3 82.3 97.6 
249,923 Female | 16.5 | 14.3 13.7 | 86.7 83.0 95.8 
249,925 | Female | 159 | 13.9 13.6 | 88.5 | 86.6 97.8 
