CRANIOLOGY OF PEOPLE OF INDIA. 121 



ore. Their weapons were spears of bamboo and the sumpitan with poisoned darts. Dr 

 Scott also wrote an account of their religion, houses, dances, etc., but as this closely 

 corresponded with the description already in print by Mr Hale, it is unnecessary to 

 reproduce it. 



The skull presented to me by Dr Scott is, I think, that of a man. apparently about 

 middle life ; the lower jaw is unfortunately absent. 



In the norma verticalis the outline was broadly ovoid, with almost vertical side walls, 

 not ridged, but flattened in the sagittal region ; the parietal eminences were not promi- 

 nent, and the skull was without the marked disproportion between the breadth of the 

 frontal and parietal regions seen in the Andaman crania. The length-breadth index was 

 74*6, and the skull was dolichocephalic. The vertical index was 76*5, and the height was 

 more than the breadth. The parietal longitudinal arc was much the longest. A shallow, 

 vertical-transverse constriction, as if from the pressure of a band during infancy, was 

 immediately behind the coronal suture. The parieto-occipital slope passed gradually 

 downwards, and the occipital squama was rounded. 



The glabella and supra-orbital ridges were distinct but not excessive, the forehead 

 only slightly receded, and the frontal eminences were not prominent. The nasion was 

 a little depressed ; the nasal bones were small, concave forwards, and projected feebly at 

 the tip. The nasal spine of the superior maxillae was short. The anterior nares were 

 wide, and the nasal index, 5 8 '5, was strongly platyrhine. The floor of the nose and the 

 incisive region of the jaw were separated by a shallow ridge. The upper jaw was 

 orthognathous. The orbital index, 78, was microseme. Although the absence of the 

 lower jaw prevented the complete facial index being taken, the short nasio-alveolar 

 diameter, as compared with the interzygomatic breadth index, 3 4 '5, gave a low 

 chamseprosopic character to the face. The palato-m axillary region was broad in relation 

 to the length, and the index was 125. 



The teeth were not much though several had been lost during life, and the 



sockets were absorbed ; their cro were smaller than in the Andaman Islanders. The 

 sutural denticulations were short and relatively simple. A small Wormian bone was in 

 the left parieto-mastoid suture, and in the left pterion was a large epipteric bone. The 

 left jugal process was tuberculated. The mastoids were feeble, and the skull rested 

 behind on the posterior border of the foramen magnum. The cranium was phseno- 

 zygous. The cranial capacity was microcephalic. 



From the examination of the bones of the skeleton, especially those of the limbs, it 

 was evident that the person had been of low stature. The atlas was the only true 

 vertebra which reached me. 



Pelvis. — It was small in general dimensions : the alse were not expanded or very 

 translucent : the pectineal lines were not knife-like : the prae- auricular sulcus was 

 distinct. The sacrum had a feeble anterior concavity : its index, 102, was platyhieric, 

 but the length was almost equal to the breadth. The conjugate diameter of the pelvic 

 brim was distinctly greater than the transverse, and the brim index, 108 "5, was highly 



