THE COWALITSKS, 



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PLATES XLIX AND L. 



COWALITSK. 



This extraordinary relic was also brought from the Columbia river by my 

 friend Mr. Townsend. Deformed as the other skulls of this series are, this one 

 surpasses them all in those factitious proportions which result from mechanical 

 pressure to the forehead. Thus the vertical diameter is reduced to little more 

 than four inches — the top of the cranium presents a flattened arch not far 

 removed from a horizontal plane, and the face is protruded until the facial angle 

 is reduced to sixty-six degrees, the lowest grade which I have observed in any 

 human skull. I have represented both profile and vertical views of this head ; 

 but the latter represents it as possessed of too much regularity, especially about 

 the zygomae. The first or profile drawing is perfectly accurate in all its propor- 

 tions, but the artist has inadvertently drawn it one sixth of an inch too small in 

 each of its diameters. 



MEASUREMENTS, 



Longitudinal diameter, 

 Parietal diameter, . 

 Frontal diameter. 

 Vertical diameter, . 

 Inter-mastoid arch, . 

 Inter-mastoid line, . 

 Occipito-frontal arch. 

 Horizontal periphery, 

 Extreme length of head and face. 



7. inches. 



6.1 inches. 



4.9 inches. 



4.1 inches. 

 13.9 inches. 



4. inches. 

 12.7 inches. 

 20.2 inches. 



8.6 inches. 



