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chamaeprosopic impression. Pars nasalis oss. frontis is very long, the sutura nasi thus lying 

 almost in the middle of the medial edges of the orbits. The glabella is evenly developed 

 and prominent, the superciliary ridges are hardly marked. The interorbital région is broad 

 and the orbits are very roomy. The broad and massive maxilla shows a projecting alveolar 

 portion. The squamosal suture lies low, because the squama oss. temporis is slightly developed 

 in height; the linea temporalis, however, is situated pretty high. The mastoid processes are 

 small, the muscular ridges moderate. Ail the sutures are of a very simple type (Broca N os . 2 

 and 3), even the lambdoidal suture. The pterion région shows no variations, except that it 

 is narrow. Most of the teeth are lost post mortem, those présent are (see p. 339) somewhat 

 worn down. 



Norma basilaris (fig. 5). Basion lies higher than opisthion and therefore the foramen 

 magnum looks forward, the skull as an exception to the rule, resting on the back part of 

 the circumference. 



Scapula. Five spécimens of which the average length is 145 m. m., breadth 105 m. m., 

 therefore the index 72.4; with Europeans (MARTIN [1905, 578]) it is 65.3. The infraspinous 

 index is 106.6! Thèse shoulderblades strike one on account of the angle between the upper 

 and the lower part of the margo vertebralis, being on an average 135 . The angle between 

 the spine lamella and the fossa infraspinata is less than 90 . In conséquence of this, notwith- 

 standing the moderate dorso-ventral breadth of the spine, the fossa supraspinata is roomy 

 enough for a powerful musc, supraspinatus (FORSTER 1904, 72]). The dorsal ridge of the 

 spine has, as usual, a thickening for the medial fibres of the musc, trapezius. This thicken- 

 ing, however (see PI. XXX, fig. 7), is in casu exclusively directed downwards (with the 

 erect human being) so far that one can hide the top of the finger beneath it, and even in 

 this manner carry the shoulderblade on the finger. The acromion is short and broad, arches 

 in the usual way over the cavitas glenoidalis, with an almost right angle between the 

 hind and the latéral part. The coracoid process is less arched and directed more horizontally 

 than with European scapulae. The cavitas glenoidalis does not look upwards and has the 

 fairly large index of 74.1. Close to the angulus inferior there is a large flat space for the 

 insertion of the Musc, teres major, with the Papuan strongly developed (FORSTER [1. c, 74] ), 

 by which at a distance of 3 — 4 cm. from the inferior angle a second angle is formed. Another 

 peculiarity is the curve of the blade along the line of the spine base, the fossa supraspinata 

 and the fossa infraspinata thus forming an angle, and the fossa subscapularis showing a very 

 strong concavity. On PL XXX a Papuan scapula (fig. 7) is shown beside an average European 

 scapula (fig. 6). 



Humérus. Four spécimens, on an average 319 m. m. in length, which according to 

 Maxouvrier [1902, 104], corresponds to a standing height of 1641 m. m., which is above 

 the real stature of the Wendèsi people to whom those bones belonged. Thèse humeri are 

 slender, their minimum circumference varies between 56 and 66 m. m.; both epiphyses, however, 

 are relatively strong. Two are right humeri, and although shorter than the left ones, hâve a 

 larger circumference than the latter, which are probably female. The ellipsoid form of the 

 caput (43 X 4° m. m.) is normal. Tuberculi, sulcus intertubercularis and crista tuberculi majoris, 

 well developed. The anatomical neck forms a marked groove, both towards the tuberculum 

 majus and the tuberculum minus, which latter through this stands more apart than in the 



