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ETHNOLOGY AND AECIIJEOLOGY. 



above the brute3. The locality of the Digger Indians is several degrees further 

 North than the Sierra Madre range. This resemblance to the brute is mentioned, 

 as the popular belief seems to be, in her case as in the Aztec children, that she is 

 a specimen of a race, half human and half brute. 



The girl is modest, playful in her disposition, pleased with playthings like 

 a child, and, at times, rather hard to manage, from her obstinate and impulsive 

 character. She is intelligent, understands perfectly everything said to her, can 

 converse in English, and also in Spanish ; she has a good ear for music, and can 

 sin" tolerably well ; she can also sew remarkably well, and is very fond of ornament 

 and dress. Her appearance i3 far less disgusting than representations of her have 

 shown her to be, although the enormous growth of hair on the face, and the promi- 

 nence of the lips, from diseased gums, give ber a brutish appearance. Her hair is 

 long, very thick, black and straight, like that of the American Indian ; hair, of the 

 same color and character as that on the top of her head, grows on the forehead, 

 quite to the eyebrows, varying from one half to an inch in length, having been par- 

 tially cut off in the middle of the forehead; the eyebrows are very thick and 

 shaggv, and the lashes remarkably long ; the hair also grows along the sides and 

 alfe of the nose, upper lip, cheeks, and about the ears, which are large, and with 

 very large lobes ; the chin is also well supplied with a black, fine beard, two or 

 three inches long ; the arms are hairy for a woman, though not for a man ; on 

 other parts of the body, there can be said to be no unusual growth of hair ; there 

 is great mammary development. 



I have measured her head carefully, and it does not differ much from the aver- 

 age of these races, as given by Dr. Morton :— 



Horizontal 

 Periphery. 





Long. 



Par. 



Front. 



Inter- 



Occip 





diam. 



diam. 



diam. 



Mastoid. 

 Arch. 



Front 

 Arch. 



Ordinary. 



6.7 in. 



6. 



4.9 



14.6 



13.1 



Opate. 



6.3 



5.5 



4.2 



13.5 



13. 



20. 

 20. 



She has, therefore, a well-proportioned, though small brain. Her head varies 

 somewhat from that of an American Indian. There is no characteristic prominence 

 of the vertex, no flatness of the occiput or forehead, no want of symmetry in the 

 two sides ; the shape of the cheeks and the complexion are hardly Indian. The 

 space between the orbits is large, and the eyes are very black and piercing ; there 

 is no obliquity to be noticed, as in the Mongol. The nose is flat, quite unlike the 

 aquiline nose of the Indian, and yet not like that of the Negro. The mouth is 

 very large, and the lips prominent, and rather thick ; the gums are in a curious 

 condition, being swelled all around, so as to rise above and conceal the teeth ; they 

 are not sensitive, and are so hard as to allow her to crack hard nuts with them. 

 The growth in the upper jaw is chiefly a hypertrophy of the bone, and in the lower 

 jaw, principally a disease of the gum3 resembling "vegetations." The molars, 

 bicuspids, and canines are normal, though the latter are imbedded in the abnormal 

 gum, while the back teeth are behind it. She has a decided chin, which would 

 indicate her humanity, if nothing else did. She has a well formed arm, and a small 

 symmetrical hand ; she has also small feet. She is a perfect woman in every 

 respect, performing all the functions of woman regularly and naturally. 



She is evidently human, and nothing but human. She is quite unlike the 

 mixed African — Is she an American Indian ? It may be here remarked, that her 

 complexion, soft skin, hair, and shape of the head, face and nose, remind one more 



