398 CRANIA FROM THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA. 



(c) Description of Skulls Collected on the Santa Barbara Islands. The 

 skulls collected from the Santa Barbara Islands off the southern part of the coast 

 of California have been carefully studied by L. Carr (U. S. Geological Survey 

 (Wheeler) 1879, 277), who analyzed 315 examples ; 178 of these were male and 137 

 were female. 



This group is well worthy of being separately considered. It is highly proba- 

 ble that the people were insulated for a time sufficient to have acquired some 

 distinctive peculiarities, though their relationship to the mainland tribes is exact. 



1,818 1 2 , aged 45 years, — stenocephalic. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridge prominent, 3 mm. The supra-orbital margin 

 inclined 40°. — Nasal bone 24 mm.; frontal part almost nil; radix 4 mm., 90°; 

 salient 17 mm., 30°. — Nasal vestibule analophic ; nasal spine pa?domorphic, with 

 sharp spinal crest. Alveolus small. — Choanal pa?domorphic. — Foramen lacerum 

 medium open. — Petroso-sphenoidal suture not overlapped. — Sagitta at post-bregma 

 carinated. — Malar bone with marginal process almost nil ; not in spheno-maxil- 

 lary fissure ; suture-trace present. — Sconce 110 mm. — Skull rests on opisthion. 

 It retains paroccipital processes 12 mm. on right, 6 mm. on left. — It bears a close 

 resemblance to skulls from the South seas. 2 



Lower Jaw. Genial spine double, crest nil ; lemurine process present; inner 

 half condyloid process inclined. 



1,823 <?, aged 40 years, — archencephalic ; high and narrow. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridges, 4 mm. ; superior orbital border scarcely 

 inclined, 40 mm. — Nasal bone 23 mm. long; flat very low arch; frontal portion, 2 

 mm. long; maxillary 17 mm.; premaxillary 4 mm. — Nasal vestibule microlophic. 

 — Hard palate hyperbolic, alveolar height 12 mm. — Sphenoido-tympanic suture not 

 overlapped. — Foramen lacerum medium almost closed ; petrosa not inflated. — Skull 

 rests on opisthion. — Sconce 122 mm. — Lambcloiclal suture serrated throughout. 

 Phasnozgomous. — Malar bone small, 20 mm. wide ; marginal process small ; not in 

 spheno-maxillary fissure ; suture-trace present. Lachrymal bones absent ; ossa 

 plana small. — Conspicuous ethmoidal bulla. 



The resemblance already noted between some Santa Barbara skulls and the 

 Polynesian type is conspicuous in this example. The nasal salient unusually low 

 20°. 



1,822 ?, aged 60 years, — cymbecephalic. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridge rudimental ; outer part superior orbital margin 

 scarcely inclined, 40?. Nasal bones flat; radix 6 mm., 90°. — Nasal vestibule 

 microlophic ; incisor eminence and alveolar line trenchant. — Hard palate parabolic ; 

 choanae widely divergent; sphenoido-tjanpanic suture not overlapped. — Petrosa 

 inflated. — Foramen lacerum medium scarcely open. — Temporal crest rudimental ; 

 parieto sphenoidal suture small 10 mm. Lambdoidal suture serrate at asterion ; 



1 All the specimens examined are in the museum of the Academy. 



' L. Carr (1. c.) notes the Santa Barbara skulls to be " roof-shaped along the sagittal suture." 



