722 PROFESSOR SIR W. TURNER ON 



The seven male skulls had a mean internal capacity 1501 c.c, whilst the single 

 woman's skull was only 1250 c.c. 



Up to this time very few examples of the skulls of the natives of the Naga Hills 

 have been deposited in Museums. The specimens sent home by Surgeon-Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Wright form therefore an important addition to the material collected for the 

 investigation of their cranial characters. In the Barnard Davis collection, now in the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, are three Naga crania;* and a 

 fourth specimen from Ninu, in the Patkoi Mountains, has subsequently been acquired by 

 the College. These, together with a fifth specimen, collected by Colonel Woodthorpe 

 in the Patkoi Mountains, have been described by Professor G. D. Thane, t who looks 

 upon three as those of men and two those of women. They are all adult, but not aged. 

 Two were decorated : one with wire passed through the orbits and zygomata, which sup- 

 ported fragments of shell as well as some small bells ; the other having rings of thick 

 wire placed through the zygomatic arches, orbits and nasal cavities. 



Both in Professor Thane's series and in mine the skulls had a certain smoothness of 

 surface, owing to the muscular ridges and processes possessing no special prominence, 

 and the forehead was almost vertical. His specimens were, however, shorter than mine, 

 for though the mean height and breadth were almost identical in the two series, the 

 mean length of Thane's specimens was 4 mm. less than in mine. In both sets the mean 

 cephalic index was mesaticephalic ; but in Thane's series owing to the diminished 

 length it was 78'1, being 1*7 higher than in mine; taking both series together the 

 mean cephalic index in the thirteen Naga skulls was 77. The mean vertical index in 

 Thane's specimens was 78*4, which was appreciably higher than in mine, and the 

 mean of both series was 76'9, so that the mean breadth very slightly exceeded the 

 mean height in the two groups. The crania may be regarded as hypsicephalic. 



In Professor Thane's series the mean gnathic index was 9 8 '6, but in mine it was 

 much lower, 93*5 : the mean of both series was 96, i.e., orthognathous. In his specimens 

 the mean nasal index was 5 3 '3, in mine 49*7, but the mean of the two was 51'1, i.e., 

 mesorhine : the anterior nares therefore are moderately wide in relation to the height. 

 In his crania the mean orbital index was 8 8 "5, in the higher term of the mesoseme 

 series ; but in mine they were definitely megaseme, so that in the people generally we 

 may say that the height of the orbit approaches its width. In both series of skulls the 

 palate was wide in relation to its length, and the index was brachyuranic. 



In Thane's specimens the mean interzygomatic diameter was 129*7, but in mine it 

 was 133*4, and as five of my skulls exceeded in this dimension the mean of his 

 collection, it follows that they had greater breadth in the facio-zygomatic region. 



The three male skulls in Professor Thane's series ranged in their cubic capacity 

 from 1300 to 1400 c.c, with a mean of 1377 c.c, whilst the mean capacity of the two 

 women was 1237 c.c In my series, only one skull apparently was that of a woman 



* Thesaurus Craniorum, p. 173 ; and Supplement, p. 88. 



t Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. xi. p. 215, 1882. 



