CRANIA FROM THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA. 387 



214 <?, Nasqua (Naas), Fort Simpson. Aged 20 years, — stenocephalia 

 Glabella and supra-orbital ridges faint, outer part of upper border of orbit almost 

 straight. — Nasal bones 27 mm. long, no frontal portion, greatly narrowed at the low 

 arched bridge, frontal bone carinated ; radix 11 mm., 80°; salient 13 mm., 50°. 

 Nasal vestibule microlophic ; small incisor eminence ; nasal spine simple, large. 

 Spinal ridge subtrenchant, limiting. — Hard palate paedomorphic. — Choanal with base 

 wider than apex. Petrosa asymmetrical, the left the larger. — The sphenoido-tympanic 

 fissure overlapped by the enormous spinous process. — Temporal crests faintly defined, 

 mortise at post-squamosa conspicuous. — Malar bone with large marginal process on 

 right side 7 mm. — Lachrymal bone with hamular process joining maxilla. — Skull 

 rests on conceptacula, phamozygomous. 



The skull is barely mature. The third upper molar is just erupted. Hence 

 the muscular impressions are weak, but the marginal process of the malar bone 

 enormous, as are also the spinous processes. The occipital norma is moderately 

 paedomorphic and slightly "cut off." 



457 9 , Chinook, Columbia River. Aged 60 years, — eurycephalic. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridge, 1 mm. Supra-orbital margin scarcely inclined, 

 50°. — Nasal bones 25 mm. long; frontal part 4 mm. long; radix 8 mm. long, 90° ; 

 salient 18 mm., 40°. — Nasal vestibule microlophic ; incisor eminence of alveolar line 

 rudimentary ; spinal line present on left only. Incisor crest inconspicuous. — Septal 

 foramen large. — Alveolus high. — Hard palate shallow, indeterminate ; wider at base 

 than apex. Spinous process overlapping sphenoido-tympanic suture left. Foramen 

 lacerum medium nearly closed. — Malar bone marginal process nil ; suture-trace 

 none ; bone enters into spheno-maxillary fissure. — Skull rests on conceptacula ; 

 phaenozygomous. 



This is a good example of a skull of a female passed middle life. The jaw is 

 nearly edentulous. The muscular power was low for the temporal impressions are 

 weak and the parieto-temporal crest not raised near the lambdoidal suture. A 

 continuous curve passes from the post-bregma to the opisthon, hence the skull is 

 "well-filled." 



578 $ , Chinook slave. Aged 35 years, — eurycephalic. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridge, 3 mm.; supra-orbital margin, 40°. — Nasal 

 bones mutilated. — Nasal vestibule analophic with slightly raised alveolar line. 

 Alveolus 16 mm. — Hard palate hyperbolic. — Alveolar process 13 mm. high. — Choanae 

 wide, paedomorphic. — Foramen lacerum medium nearly closed ; spinous process 

 overlapping sphenoido-tympanic suture. — Temporal ridge interrupted at stephanion ; 

 parieto-temporal ridge raised at lambdoidal suture, which is harmonic near asterion ; 

 transverse occipital torus well developed. — Malar bone with large marginal process ; 

 it is lodged in the spheno-maxillary fissure ; suture-trace conspicuous. — Sconce 130 

 mm . — Skull rests on opisthion ; curves in occipital norma two, — one from opisthion 

 to inion and another from inion to intertubera; yet the skull is "cut-off." 



