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The height of the skull was also very considerable and reached, as 

 may be seen from the table, 115 millimeters; the vertical index was 89, 

 so that the skull was hyperacrocephalic. In all probability the pressure 

 during infancy, which shortened the skull in its antero-posterior direc- 

 tion, forced the vertex upwards and added to the height of the cranium, 

 so that the high vertical index was occasioned both by diminished 

 length and increased height. The skull was cryptozygous, for not only 

 was the breadth in the parietal region great, but the Stephanie diameter 

 was 137 millimeters. The glabella was not very prominent, but the su- 



Fig. 31. 

 Apache Mother with Children. 



(From photograph.) 



praciliary ridges were thick and strong. The oridge of the nose was 

 concave forward, so that the tip projected to the front. The basi-nasal 

 diameter was 105 millimeters ; the basi-alveolar 98 millimeters, the gna- 

 thic index was 93, and the skull was orthognathic. The nasal spine of 

 the superior maxillae was moderate. Where the side walls of the an- 

 terior nares joined the floor the margin of the opening was rounded. 

 The transverse diameter of the orbit was 40 millimeters, the vertical di- 

 ameter 36, the orbital index was 90, and the orbit was megaseme. The 



