REPORT ON AN ADDITIONAL COLLECTION OF SKELETAL REMAINS, FROM 
ARKANSAS AND LOUISIANA. 
(Made, and presented to the National Museum, іп 1909, by Mr, Clarence В. Moore.) 
Ву Dr. Aves HRDLIČKA. 
In charge of the Division of Physical Anthropology, United States National Museum. 
1. 
The material to which this report applies consists of 58 crania, and of numer- 
ous bones from the same as well as from other skeletons. In all there are ninety- 
one lots, thirty-seven of which are from Arkansas, and fifty-four from Louisiana, 
Those from Arkansas come from a single burial place, while the bones from Louis- 
iana were gathered from seven different localities. Details concerning these places, 
the modes of burial, and the archwology of the graves, are given in the preceding 
Memoir by Mr. Clarence B. Moore. The localities in which the skeletal remains 
were found are shown on the accompanying sketch map, which gives also those 
from which came the skeletal material described by the writer in Mr. Мооге в last 
year’s report! and to which frequent reference will be made in this paper. 
The skulls and bones show various states of preservation, but for the greater 
part they are more or less imperfect. None of the specimens is mineralized, or 
much devoid of animal matter. АП, with one exception, are plainly Indian; the 
exception, a skull of a female about fifty years of age, with moderate “ flat-head” 
deformation, is negroid. This skull, in all probability, is that of a negro-Indian 
mixed-blood, and will not receive further consideration. 
The majority of the crania, both from Arkansas and from Louisiana, exhibit 
artificial deformation. The deformation represents both of the two varieties, namely, 
occipital flattening or cradle-board compression,’ and fronto-occipital flattening 
(“ flat-head ” deformation). The forms occur together in some of the localities, but 
owing to some insufficient method practised to produce the fronto-occipital flatten- 
ing, they are not always clearly distinguishable. Each variety of deformation pre- 
dominates in, but is not limited to, a certain type of people, indicating adoption of 
customs in this regard by some of the groups. 
As to anthropological identifications, there is, notwithstanding the compara- 
tively large number of specimens, little evidence on which conclusions can be based. 
The crania that had been artificially altered in form are to a large extent useless 
1“ Report on а Collection of Crania from Arkansas.” Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1908, 
XIII, pp. 558-563. : қ қ 
dm writer's article on “ Artificial Head Deformation," Handbook of American Indians, Bull. 
30, Bureau of Amer. Ethnol.,Wash., 1907, Part 1, p. 96. 
