96 CRANIA AND BONES FROM SORREL BAYOU. 
On the whole, it is determinable that the series represents a fairly uniform 
single strain of people; that this strain was characterized by rather large lower 
jaws and broad upper dental arches; by a relative fullness of the face, the sub- 
orbital depressions being but little marked; by a quite pronounced though not 
extreme prognathism; by large, though at the same time high nasal aperture; 
and by good sized, megaseme orbits. The supraorbital ridges while strongly 
developed in the males are not especially heavy, and the forehead, though 
Fic. 1a.— The lowest dorsal and upper three lumbar vertebre of skeleton No. 277,730, U. S. №. M,, 
showing diseased condition and bend forward. Front view. 
sloping slightly more backward than in whites, would have shown evidently in 
no ease a decided natural slant. 
The vault is as a rule of a very fair height; its outline, seen from above, 
approaches the ovoid or the elliptical. The cephalic index ranged through 
mesocephaly, with a few of the forms possibly slightly shorter. The skulls 
resemble in this and other respects quite closely the crania excavated by Mr. 
Clarence B. Moore on a former occasion at Johnson Place, Avoyelles Parish, La. 
(though those were not deformed), and also a certain proportion of the crania 
collected by Mr. Moore and others in southern Arkansas. They are remarkably 
like the less narrow type of crania among the Siouan people and the more southern 
