Contributions to the Antliropology of the East Greenlanders. 167 



The sixteen human skulls which the Expedition has brought 

 home are in the main very well preserved, and, with the exception 

 of one, have the lower jaw attached. Only a single specimen, a 

 child's skull and thus of minor importance, is in a condition to 

 preclude craniometrical examination. 



A couple of them must have belonged to scarcely full-grown 

 individuals. It has not been possible to determine the sex with 

 complete certainty, and I therefore present the conclusions at which 

 I have arrived in this respect, with great reservation. In the fol- 

 lowing list I have in most cases only noted the peculiarities which 

 are of importance for the determination of age and sex, as well as 

 a few minor anomalies, particularly with regard to the condition of 

 the teeth, while the ordinary individual variations can be seen 

 from the annexed tables of measurements. 



1. Dronning Louise's Island (60°30' lat. N.). Male skull with moderate muscular 

 insertions, powei-fully formed facial parts and pronounced scaphocephalз^ The sutures 

 open; the teeth as a whole slighth', and the last molar not at all, worn. Inter- 

 maxillar suture persisting on the palate. 



2. Dronning Louise's Island. Male skull with moderate insertions. The sutures 

 the teeth highh' worn. In the lower jaw the last molar on both sides 



3. Kiitek (60°45' lat. N.) Elderlj' man. Rather strongl}' developed insertions. 

 The teeth highly worn. The two hindermost third parts of sutura sagittalis 

 and the Avhole of sutura lambdoidea closed. The palate highly excavated; in the 

 middle of the sutura sagittalis the lacunar is raised in a torus and behind this 

 flattened. 



4. Kutek. Elderly male, powerfulh^ built skull with well-developed insertions 

 and partiall}' closed sutures. The teeth highl}' worn; the lower jaw lacks the last 

 molar on the left side. The nasal bone does not appear to have been present, as 

 processus orbitales max. sup. meet each other for a distance of about 2 centimetres 

 from proc. nasalis oss. frontis, but this part is, like the part around spina nasalis 

 inf., somewhat damaged. Small suture bones in the left sutura lambdoidea. 



5. Kutek. Old female skull with sharp cristae atrophied by senility, and orbital 

 walls thin as paper. With the exception of squama temporalis all the flat bones are 

 completeh' united. The teeth highly worn. 



6. Kutek. Elderlj' female skull with moderate muscular insertions. Sutura 

 sagittalis and coronalis closed. The teeth highl}' worn. Traces of suture bones in the 

 left lambdoidea. 



7. Kutek. Elderly female skull with weak insertions and sharp cristae. Almost 

 all the sutures closed. The teeth highly worn; in the upper jaw the last molar 

 on the left side is missing. 



8. Anoritok (61°30' lat. N.). Male, heavy and powerfully built skull with strong 

 muscle insertions and open sutures. In the upper jaw the third molar on the left 

 side is missing, Avhereas the second is unusually large. On the right side the 

 last molar is verj' small. In the lower jaw it is missing on the left side. Onlj' two 

 front teeth in the upper jaw. 



9. Anoritok. Elder male (?) cranium with partially closed sutures. At the 

 bregma a moderate saddle-shaped depression. The teeth as a whole small and not 

 much worn; the left canine tooth in the upper jaw is somewhat chisel -shaped 



