98 CRANIA AND BONES FROM SORREL BAYOU. 
condyloid process of the lower jaw, and three instances of exostoses in the distal 
part of the auditory meatus,’ the 16 crania show nothing pathological. Even 
the teeth, though in some cases showing advanced wear, are uncommonly 
healthy, out of the 401 teeth present only six (in five skulls) presenting slight to 
moderate caries. In three or four instances there evidently existed, however, 
some pyorrhoea. 
As to anomalies, there are none worthy of special mention; two of the male 
skulls are however very heavy, one with its lower jaw reaching the weight of 
fully three pounds. Two of the lower jaws, though otherwise normal, are of 
extraordinary size even for the Indian. 
Opposed to the very healthy state of the skulls, the bones of the skeleton of 
No. 277,730 show considerable disease. They present what is either tuberculosis 
or a very pronounced form of arthritis, of the lowest dorsal and especially the 
upper lumbar vertebree—with moderate curvature forward of the spine at this 
place (Figs. 1a, 2a); an abscess cavity in the distal end of the left clavicle; more 
or less marked traces of periostitis on all of the long bones as well as both of the 
clavicles; and signs of arthritis on one of the condyles of the right femur, as well 
as the lower articular surface of the right (the left absent) humerus. These 
bones represent one of the two skeletons in the mound whose parts were found in 
association and may belong to an intrusive, later burial. 
1 [In two males quite marked bilateral, in one male slight unilateral. 
? Of those absent all but 15 were lost post-mortem; and 13 of these 15 were lost in life by one of the 
women. 
