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nose was wide and flattened ; the anterior nares were wide and rounded at the junction of 

 the side walls with the floor ; the nasal index was strongly platyrhine. The upper jaw 

 was mesognathous, the orbital index was microseme, and the palate was brachyuranic. 

 The cranial capacity was only 1070 c.c. The skull was cryptozygous. 



Ndgesar or Kisdn. Table II. 



The Nagesars are a Dravidian tribe found in Sirguja, Jashpur, Palamau, and 

 Lohardaga in Chuta Nagpur. Dalton says that in appearance they resemble the 

 Kols, but not the best type, the Santal rather than the Ho. They are not, however, 

 marked with a godna or arrow, and the women are not tattooed. Dalton describes 

 them as ill-favoured, the forehead receding, narrow and low ; the nose short, broad at 

 the base and with a truncated appearance ; the front teeth and jaws project, tilt up the 

 lip and the end of the nose, and give a prognathic character. The skin is deep brown to 

 black ; the stature is short. They are totemistic and practise adult marriage. They 

 offer sacrifices to the sun and other deities, but many of them worship the tiger — like 

 the Santals — and they also adore their ancestors. 



The Indian Museum contains the skull (No. 405) of a man set. 30, of the Nagesar 

 tribe from Chuta Nagpur. He was a Dacoit named Lukroo, who died in prison. The 

 skull was presented by Lieut. -Col. Dalton. 



The cranium in the norma verticalis was an elongated ovoid with vertical sides, a 

 ridge-like sagittal region with a steep slope downwards and outwards to the parietal 

 eminences. The cephalic index was only 67 "8, and the skull was hyper-dolichocephalic. 

 The basi-bregmatic height materially exceeded the breadth, and the vertical index was 

 7 3 "3. The glabella and supra-orbital ridges were moderate; the forehead somewhat re- 

 ceded ; the parieto-occipital region sloped gradually backwards ; the occipital squama was 

 rounded and projected behind the inion. The nasion was shallow ; the bridge of the 

 nose was almost vertical and inclined to be flattened ; the nasal spine of the superior 

 maxillae was feeble, and the anterior nares rounded off into the incisive region of the 

 upper jaw. The nasal index, 53*2, was platyrhine, but the gnathic index, 96*9, was 

 orthognathous. The complete facial index was 80*6, i.e., low-faced or chamaeprosopic. 

 The height of the orbit was materially below the breadth, and the index, 84 '2, placed the 

 orbit almost in the microseme group. The palato-maxillary index, 111*1, was almost 

 dolichuranic. The teeth were fully erupted and showed signs of wear; the canine 

 fossae were deep. The skull was not metopic, and the other sutures were not ossified ; 

 a small inter-parietal bone and smaller Wormian bones were in the lambdoid region. In 

 the left pterion were two epipteric bones, and the right alisphenoid was pointed. The 

 os planum of the ethmoid was pointed in front. A pterygo-sphenoid foramen was 

 present on the right side. The muscular ridges were moderate. A third condyle was 

 not present, and the right jugal process was tuberculated. The cubic capacity of the 

 cranium was only 1252 c.c, therefore distinctly microcephalic. 



