184 REPORT ON AN ADDITIONAL COLLECTION OF SKELETAL 
There are seventeen male and eighteen female skulls. Including all the bones, 
however, thirty male and twenty-eight female individuals are represented. 
With a single exception, these specimens are in a state of preservation similar 
to that of the Arkansas skeletal remains. The exception noted is the bones from 
Harrelson Landing, which are more resistant, and darker in color. 
Deformations are again frequent. Of the male skulls, six are of normal shape, 
nine show various grades of occipital and two of fronto-occipital compression ; among 
the skulls of females, six are non-deformed, eight have occipital flattening and four 
fronto-occipital compression. 
An interesting fact is that the fronto-occipital deformation occurs in only one 
locality, namely, Ward Place, La. Its absence in several of the other localities 
may be merely accidental, due to the small number of specimens from these places. 
But in the fairly large series from Myatt’s Landing, only occipital compression is 
detected. Notes regarding the grades of deformation are included with the first 
table of measurements. f 
Several of the skulls show evidence of disease; details of these are given in 
Section VI. Syphilis was undoubtedly present, as likewise were other pathological 
conditions, known already from the skeletal remains of Arkansas. 
Anomalies of importance, as in the crania from Arkansas, are limited in num- 
ber. In male skull No. 255.106 the basilar process shows a deep lateral fissure on 
the left side and a similar condition in a lesser degree оп the right (Fig. 4, y); 
the same specimen shows also a small medio-basilar or “ pharyngeal” fossa. Male 
skull 255.154 exhibits a very pronounced occipital torus, with a marked depres- 
sion above its middle for a ligamentous or tendinous insertion. Male skull 255.203 
shows an epactal or *interparietal" bone, 6.7 em. broad and 4.5 cm. high. Male 
skull 255.218 has a pronounced semilunar occipital crest, and a depression of good 
size in the median line above it. Female skull 255.094 shows a marked bilateral 
depression extending antero-posteriorly over three-fifths of the surface of each 
parietal, between the temporal ridges and the sagittal region, due to senile diminu- 
tion of nourishment of these portions and their consequent absorption. In female 
skull 255.118 there is a large third condyle with an articular facet; and in female 
skull 255.103 we find on the right a paramastoid process, 0.9 cm. high and equally 
stout, which articulated with the atlas. On the left side of female skull 255.212 
there is a large wedge-like, separate ossicle, 2.2 cm. in length by 0.5 cm. in average 
breadth, between the wing of the sphenoid and the glenoid portion of the temporal 
bone. This separate piece includes the sphenoid spine (spinous process). F emale 
skull 255.213 shows a pronounced depression, 3.3 by 3.0 cm. in extent, above inion ; 
it is of the same character as the depressions in crania 255.154 and 255.218, and 
as those of a number of skulls in the Arkansas collection of 1908, and no doubt 
served for a ligamentous or tendinous attachment. In female skull 255.214 there 
is a marked non-articular tubercle immediately back of each occipital condyle. 
Finally, the lower jaw of female skull 255.220 shows on each side an abnormally 
large and cleft-like dental foramen. 
Other minor anomalies are enumerated under “ Observations ” (page 197). 
