232 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 118 



Site No. 17 



A single burial from Mound No. 1 of this site, listed as "Skeleton 

 No. 1", yielded a skull 162 mm long, 135 mm broad, with the resulting 

 cephalic index of 83.33. The orbits have a maximum length of 34 

 mm and a maximum breadth of 35 mm. The glabella-inion length is 

 153 mm. No other cranial measurements are possible and the long 

 bones are entirely fragmentary. 



Site No. 19 



The outstanding feature of this site is the extreme brachycephalism 

 shown in practically all of the skulls. Of 24 skulls from Site No. 19, 

 20 have a cephalic index of over 90 and 14 have an index of over 100. 

 (PL 138, b.) 



Certainly any skull with a cephalic index of over 100 must be con- 

 sidered either as pathological or as having had the condition pro- 

 duced by artificial binding of the head. Since a careful examination 

 of these skulls fails to disclose any pathological conditions it must be 

 assumed that the group of aborigines who inhabited this site must 

 have had the practice of binding the head to produce the deformity. 

 The extreme flattening occurs in both the frontal and parietal 

 regions, as shown in plate 139, c, and this, of course, has produced 

 a compensatory bulging in the parietal regions on both sides. The 

 method of binding the head to produce this condition did not always 

 result in an equal or uniform pressure, for often the skull is decidedly 

 asymmetrical, as shown in plate 138, a. Plates 138, a, b; 139, <?, are 

 all from burials from Site No. 19. 



Site No. 19 is also important because it yielded more osteological 

 material than any other site in the Norris Basin. Forty skeletons are 

 here reported from this site and many of these were in excellent con- 

 dition and well suited for osteometric studies. As a result, this site 

 must probably be considered as the most important in the region as 

 regards skeletal material. 



The skeletons, numbered to agree with the field notes, and of course 

 not including those burials from which the material was not fitted for 

 study, may be recorded as follows : 



Skeleton No. 1. — Adult male. Skull not suitable for measurements 

 but showing badly worn teeth and lower second and third right molars 

 missing. Long bones : Right humerus, 316 mm ; left humerus, 311 mm ; 

 right ulna, 260 mm ; left radius, 233 mm ; right femur, 430 mm ; left 

 femur, 425 mm ; left tibia, 353 mm ; right fibula, 342 mm. 



Skeleton No. 2. — Adult female not more than 20 years of age. Skull : 

 Maximum length, 161 mm ; maximum breadth, 164 mm ; cephalic index, 

 101.8; glabella-inion length, 147 mm; nasal length, 50 mm; length 



