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with a broad talon, and strongh^ resembles the foremost premolar; in the lower ja\v 

 the last molar on either side is missing. 



10. Anoritok. Fairly young female skull with open sutura sphenobasilaris. In 

 the left side of the upper jaw the last molar is missing; on the light side it is 

 visible, but has not yet emerged. The lower jaw is missing. 



11. Anoritok. Female skull with moderate muscle insertions and open sutures. 

 Teeth rather much worn. The left upper canine tooth large, chisel-shaped with 

 edge worn off. 



12. Anoritok. Not full-grown, female (?) skull with open sutura sphenobasilaris 

 and slighth' worn molar teeth. In the lower jaw the last molar on either side is 

 missing. The skull has an anomah' in the reciprocal relations of the sutures, the so- 

 called 'pterion retourné' (Broca), which consists in the angulus sup. ant. oss. tempor. 

 on either side being pushed up right up to the os frontis between ala magna oss. 

 pteryg. and os parietale; on the left side, however, with a little square detached 

 suture bone. 



13. Angmagsalik (65°40' lat. N.). Elderl}- male skull with strongly developed 

 muscle insertions and supra-orbital curves. Most of the sutures closed and the teeth 

 highly worn'). 



14. Angmagsalik. Elderly male skull with weak muscle insertions. The sutures 

 open, but the teeth highly worn. On the left side on the lower jaw the inner- 

 most front tooth is missing. The canine teeth have a pronounced chisel form with 

 edge worn off. 



15. Angmagsalik. Not full-grown, female (?) skull with open sutura spheno- 

 basilaris and traces of sutura medio frontalis and intermaxillaris. Weak insertions. 

 The canine teeth chisel-formed; the developed molar teeth somewhat worn. In the 

 lower jaw the hindermost on either side is missing; in the upper jaw the right one 

 has fallen out, the left is about to emerge. 



16. Anoritok. Skull of a child of about five. The sutura medio-frontalis is closed, 

 but there are traces of an os intermaxillare, as well as of a real interparietale, and 

 the four pieces in the occipital bone are still quite free. The shedding of the teeth 

 has just begun, and some of the coming teeth are visible; however, only the first 

 real molar on the left side of the upper jaлv and on both sides of the lower jaw 

 have emerged, and they have now fallen out, like the front teeth and the canine 

 teeth of the I'ow of milk teeth. 



As will be seen from above, the condition of the teeth of the 

 skulls presents a number of peculiar features to which no small 

 anthropological interest attaches, as they show a general variability 

 of an otherwise comparatively constant feature, which we would not 

 expect to find in this race. The chisel shape of the canine teeth 

 seems to be significant as a race mark, but the materials are too 

 slender to allow us to determine this point with certainty, as the 

 information we possess on this head as regards other races is very 

 scanty. The other peculiarities as regards shape and size are of 

 minor importance. On the other hand, the absence of the last 

 molar, the wisdom tooth, deserves special mention on account of 

 the extraordinary frequency of its occurrence. II has been supposed 



'j In both canales carotici there arc loose fragments of thin, granulated, calcareous 

 tubes, the remains of arteriosclerotic arterial walls. 



