OBSERVATIONS ON THE CRANIA FROM THE SANTA 

 BARBARA ISLANDS, CALIFORNIA. 



By Lxjoeen Care, 



Assistant Curator Peabody Museum American Archaeology and Ethnology. 



The series of Crania from the Santa Barbara Islands numbers about 

 three hundred and fifteen specimens,* and is divided somewhat unequally 

 between the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Cambridge, Mass., and the 

 Army Medical Museum at Washington City. In the former of these institu- 

 tions there are over one hundred and thirty skulls representing Santa Cruz 

 of the northern, and San Clemente and Santa Catalina of the southern, 

 group of islands, while in the latter and larger collection are to be found 

 numerous specimens from the mainland, from San Nicolas of the southern 

 and San Miguel of the northern group of islands, as well as from Santa 

 Cruz. Thus it will be seen that, to a certain extent, these collections sup- 

 plement each other; and although it is with the former that I shall chiefly 

 have to deal, yet, thanks to the publications of the Army Medical Museum 

 and to the personal kindness of its curator, Assistant Surgeon George A. 

 Otis, U. S. A., there is abundant material for a comparison of the results 

 arrived at by a careful study of the crania from each one of these different 

 localities. To simplify this as much as possible and at the same time to 

 make future reference comparatively easy, the average measurements are 

 here reproduced and tabulated, not only according to the place from which 

 the crania were originally obtained, but also according to the collection in 

 which they are now to be found. 



* This estimate is limited strictly to adults from the islands. In it the specimens in the Army 

 Medical Museum are put down at one hundred and eighty-two, though, in point of fact, they largely 

 exceed that number. My estimate was taken from the Check-list published in 187(5, since which time 

 that collection, including the crania found on the mainland, has probably been doubled. 



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