640 REPORT ON SKELETAL REMAINS, HALEY PLACE. 
The various anthropologic features of the skulls, so far as they 1. not зе 
altered by Ше deformation, show the prevailing characteristics of Indian "oea 0 
the neighboring regions, so far as is known from Mr. Moore s former explora ions. 
The orbits are of medium or slightly above medium height; the nasal one 18 
mesorhynic; the nasal врте is very low; the upper alveolar process 18 eee eh 
and quite markedly prognathic. The palates are large, and the mandibu æ strongly 
developed, indicating powerful muscles of mastication and considerable use of the 
м Seal 272,543 was that of an aged individual; it shows advanced obliteration 
of the sutures of the vault, and also the loss of all the teeth with the exception of 
one of the lower canines and one upper molar. The teeth, however, were not lost 
through senility. The free borders of the dental arches present throughout signs 
of an inflammatory process, and it was probably this which led in the main to the 
loss of the teeth, to the pronounced scarring, and in the posterior parts of the upper 
arch to some thickening. 
On the left side and in the immediate neighborhood of the nasal aperture of 
skull 272,543 there is seen, on the surface of the left upper maxilla, a marked 
swelling which, on closer examination, is found to consist of hypertrophy of the 
bone about the root of an impacted tooth, possibly the left upper canine; traces of 
the crown of this tooth are visible in the edge of the dental process below. 
Skull 272,544 belonged to an adult about 50 years of age. In this specimen 
most of the teeth are preserved, though showing advanced wear. 
Neither of the crania, nor any of the bones that accompany them, show signs 
of injury in life, or of disease, with the exception of the remnants of the lumbar 
vertebrw from burial Number 9. Тһе bodies of these vertebrae (particularly those 
of the third and fifth) show pronounced marginal exostoses, and that of the third 
shows in addition plain traces of branched fracture in the anterior part of its upper 
surface. The bone was evidently weakened through senile changes and fractured 
by some sudden increase in weight, or a shock, from above. 
The remnants of the long-bones show no features worthy of special mention. 
The left humerus measures 33.1 сш. in length, its maximum and minimum diame- 
ters at middle being 2.35 and 1.85 ст. The left tibia measures, at middle, antero- 
posteriorly, 3.4 ст.; laterally, 2.5 ст. А comparison of these remains with those 
from the McClure mounds shows dissimilarity in color, the specimens from the 
latter site being somewhat lighter; otherwise the bones present close relationship. 
The difference in color does not necessarily indicate difference in age. 
The collection includes also two crania marked “ Mound A, near L'Eau N oire 
Bayou, Avoyelles Parish, La. (Red River), Burials 33 and 35.” These two speci- 
mens differ to some extent from both of those from the Haley Place and from those 
of the McClure mounds. They exhibit only slight fronto-occipital compression, and 
permit the recognition of a subdolichocephalic or dolichocephalic type. It is quite 
possible that these crania belonged to people of a tribe different from that to which 
chez people.' 
' Compare Swanton, J. R., Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi : in 43 
Bureau of American Ethnology, Қарына 1011 e Lower Mississippi Valley, etc. Bulletin 43, 
