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therefore must be regarded as a character normal to the race. The 

 platycnemic tibiae are all those of adults, those of adolescents being 

 less pronounced. The indexes taken from specimens range as 

 follows : 



Number 



Length 



Diameters 



Index 



4540 



broken 



20 -39 



51-3 



4700 



broken 



19 -34 



55-8 



4546 



broken 



23 -39 



56.4 



4536 B 



390 



21.5-38 



56.6 



4536 A 



381 



21.5-38 



56.6 



4538 



402 



23 -38 



60.5 



4541 



Z7^ 



22 -36 



61. 1 



4542 



355 



22 -36 



61. 1 



4544 



367 



'22 -35 



62.09 



4543 



398 



25 -38 



68.4 



4547 



336 



24 -33 



72.y 



4545 



365 



24 -33 



72.y 



Humeri. An examination of the humeri from the Gerry site 

 revealed a percentage of 40 with the perforated olecranon 

 cavity. In the Edson-Reed donation from the Dennison site are 19 

 humeri, 12 perforated and 7 nonperf orated. This gives a percent- 

 age of 58.3 perforated. The tibiae from the site are greatly flat- 

 tened, some giving an index of i8mm-35mm^ 51.7. That the per- 

 forations are natural and not due to a decay of the septum is 

 patent from a microscopical examination of the edges of the per- 

 forations where the external osseous surface appears unbroken. 

 In some of the nonperforated specimens the osseous septum is of 

 tissue thinness and is translucent when held to the light. Where 

 one of these has become broken the fracture line is radically differ- 

 ent from the border of natural perforation. Some superficial in- 

 vestigators have endeavored to explain these perforations by the 

 disappearance of the septum by decay, but even a hasty examination 

 fails to justify this assumption. 



Artifacts. Pottery. The specimens of pottery secured in the 

 Cassadaga valley consist entirely of fragments. Several crushed 

 pots, however, may be restored. In thickness this pottery is less 

 than that from the shore of Lake Erie. It is mostly tempered 

 with pulverized shell and is comparatively light in weight. 

 The incised designs are few and simple in character and are of 

 the early Iroquoian style. Nearly all the specimens were found in ^ 

 ash pits, although a few fragments were found in a grave filling. 



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