412 



CRANIA FROM THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA. 



character. It is present in all the male skulls of the Moore series. Nos. 456, 1,556, 

 732 of the Seminole series exhibit it, and it is typically seen in No. 15, Huron, 

 (figs. 10 and 11, p. 414). In the collection of North American crania in the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, it exists in the skull of a Pawnee, a 

 Sioux, an Ontario Mound Indian, an Absaroka, a Californian " Digger" and an 

 Alaskan. It is more prevalent in the Mound specimens than in those derived from 

 other sources, and, in so far as this character is concerned, the Moore series crania 

 resemble these Indians. 



The symmetrical swellings over the brow in the Neanderthal skull are as 

 marked at the outer part of the curve of the superior margin of the orbit as they 

 are at the inner. In the skulls of North American Indians, on the other hand, the 

 swelling is continuous with the prominent glabella and ends abruptly at the position 



(Norma frontalis.) 



Fig. 4. — Assinaboine, 1,230, showing rounded fore- 

 head and rudimentary supra-orbital ridge. 



(Norma lateralis.) 

 Fig. 5. — Santa Barbara, 1,815, Ibid. 



of the supra-orbital notch. The appearance is distinctly seen in PI. LIII of this essay, 

 and PL LVIII, and less distinctly in PL XLIX. A peculiar frowning expression is 

 given to the front of the skull in such specimens. 



The prominent ridge, in examples already cited from the Moore series, is 

 associated with depressed, rather broad nasal bones. In this respect they are 

 strongly contrasted with the nasals in some other Indian skulls. I note in this 

 connection No. 15, Huron, which closely resembles No. 1,781, Moore series (see 

 figs. 10 and 11), the supra-orbital ridge, the depressed nose-bridge, the bimalar 

 diameter and the least facial diameter being essentially the same. The Huron skull 

 is narrower at the minimum frontal diameter, and the basi-nasal length is greater. 

 So the usual harmony between the basi-nasal length and the other measurement 

 here given is not noticeable. The nasal index is practically the same, being 44 

 for the Floridian and 45 for the Huron. 



