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process was present. The mastoids and inion were well marked. The vertical index, 

 73'7, was metriocephalic ; as is customary in brachycephali, the height was not equal to 

 the breadth, the cephalic index was 79*3, and the breadth-height index was platychamse- 

 cephalic. The intracranial capacity was 1520 c.c, on a par with the mean capacity in 

 Europeans. 



Kham Province. Table V. 



The province of Kham forms the eastern part of Tibet, and lies north-east of the 

 Brahmaputra before that river makes the great bend to the south and west. The skull 

 of the Kham warrior was dolichocephalic, with the length-breadth index 74*5. It was 

 a powerful adult male, and had a lower jaw. 



Norma verticalis. — The cranium was elongated and ovoid in outline, with the 

 parietal longitudinal arc 1 1 mm. longer than the frontal : the sagittal line was somewhat 

 elevated, the parietal eminences were distinct, and the vault sloped steeply from the 

 sagittal suture to these eminences, below which the side walls were vertical. The 

 highest point of the temporal ridge was 32 mm. from the sagittal suture. The parieto- 

 occipital slope was more gentle than in the skull from Lhasa, and the occipital squama 

 bulged behind the inion. The Stephanie diameter was 26 mm. less than the inter- 

 zygomatic, and the skull was phsenozygous. 



Norma lateralis. — The forehead was receding, the frontal eminences were scarcely 

 recognisable, and the frontal bone from the middle line to each temporal ridge sloped 

 backwards. The glabella and supraorbital ridges were prominent, and the internal 

 orbital process was thick : the nasion was a little depressed. The bridge of the nose, 

 though not projecting, was not so wide and flattened as in the Lhasa skull, and was 

 somewhat concave : the nasal bones were 27 mm. long, the interorbital width was 21 

 mm. The parietal longitudinal arc was 29 mm. longer than the occipital. The cranium 

 rested behind on the cerebellar fossae (PI. X., figs. 49-51). 



Norma facialis. — The line of separation between the floor of the nose and the incisive 

 region was a low, smooth ridge, the maxillo-nasal spine was moderate, the anterior nares 

 were narrow, and the nasal index was leptorhine. The nasio-mental and maxillo-facial 

 indices were leptoprosopic. The upper jaw was orthognathic. The upper orbital 

 border immediately external to the supraorbital notch was thin, and receded so that 

 the outer orbital process and malar border were in a plane distinctly behind the bridge of 

 the nose, the nasio-malar index was 107 '3, and the face, instead of being flattened, was 

 approximately mesopic. The orbital aperture was rounded with a megaseme index. 

 The palato-maxillary region was wide, and the index was brachyuranic. The lower jaw 

 had a square chin. The teeth had all erupted, were but little worn, and not stained 

 with betel. 



The cranial sutures were simple ; three small Wormian bones were in the lambdoid 

 suture. The parieto-squamous was broad and with a small right epipteric bone. A 

 thick sphenoidal rostrum occupied the concave upper border of the vomer. The jugal 



