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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



nasal was 48 millimeters, the nasal width 25, the nasal index was 52, 

 and the nose was mesorhiue. The palatomaxillary length was 56, 

 the palato-maxillary width was 72 millimeters; the palatomaxillary in. 

 dex was 128, and the roof of the moiith was brachyuranic. The teeth 

 were all erupted and not worn. The cranial sutures were all unossified. 



Navajo Cradle: Full-rigged. 

 the poorer sort. 



From Arizona. 



Fig. 33. 



Navajo Cradle, with wooden hood and 

 awning of dressed buckskin. 



Cat. No. 12-615, U S. N. 

 Collected by Dr. ] 



M. Fort Wingate. New Mexico 

 I. W. Shufeldt, U. S. A. ) 



The parieto-sphenoid suture in the pteriou was 19 millimeters in antero- 

 posterior diameter. There were no Wormian bones. The anterior end 

 of the inferior turbinated bone was almost in the same plane as the an- 

 terior uares. 



The Comanche cradle (6970) is the most primitive cradle in the Na- 

 tional Museum (Fig. 34). It is a strip of black bear-skin 30 inches long 

 and 20 wide, doubled together in form of a cradle-frame. Along the 

 side edges loops of buckskin are made to receive the lacing. The loops 

 are formed as follows : A buckskin string is passed through a hole in 

 the bear-skin and the longer end passed through a slit or cut in the 

 shorter end. The long end is then passed through the next hole and 

 drawn until a loop of sufficient size is left ; a slit is made in the string 

 near the last hole passed through, and then the whole lashing is drawn 



