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REPORT ON A COLLECTION OF CRANIA FROM ARKANSAS. 563 
Deductions.—The collection of skulls described above, consists of one well 
defined type, characterized mainly by brachycephaly. There are, in addition, 
features which may be regarded as local or tribal modifications, connected probably 
in the main with the habits and environment of the people, consisting in more than 
usual development in height of the upper alveolar process, a considerable develop- 
ment of the mastoids in the females, and small development, in both sexes, of the 
supraorbital arches. The people were not tall in stature, and their food was not 
coarse. 
The type of people indicated by the skulls prevailed at one time over a large 
part of the present State of Arkansas, and extended to the Gulf States. Its exact 
limits are as yet but ill defined. It stands in relation—regardless of the custom of 
head deformation— with a large contingent of the mound Indians, reaching well 
into Ohio. More distant peoples of fundamentally the same type аге, on one hand, 
the brachycephals of the northwest coast, and, on the other, the people of Yucatan 
and parts of the eastern coast of Mexico. The southwestern brachycephals must 
also be borne in mind. 
There are doubtless, in the Gulf States, yet living representatives of the type 
of people indieated by the Arkansas skulls here described. 16 exists to ап unas- 
certained extent among the Tonkawa. And the type is predominant, if not gen- 
eral, among the Choctaw. To learn its ancient distribution would be an important 
step in the anthropology of this country. 
