240 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
The following notes are based on an examination of the 83 crania 
given in the above table, and 58 others not yet measured, making 141 
in all, this being the entire number sufficiently preserved to be available 
for measurement, although 662 skeletons, of allages, have been exhumed 
to date. 
The peculiarities presented by the crania and other bones will be con- 
sidered under several heads, as follows : 
1. GENERAL ConrtTOUR. 
SIZE. 
SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VARIOUS BoNES AND CAVITIES. 
SUTURAL PECULIARITIES, INCLUDING WoRMIAN BONES. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE Lone BoNEs. 
. PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES. 
Ae many of the crania are more or less imperfect, it will be necessary 
for statistical accuracy to state explicitly under each heading the num- 
ber of crania examined in that particular connection. The section 
relating to the crania will be followed by an account of the various 
physiological and pathological peculiarities observed in gists portions 
of the skeleton. 
Sa eet 
(1.) As regards their GreNERAL Contour, the crania are, generally 
speaking, of the brachycephalic type, having a cephalic index (index 
of breadth) of .800 and over. An examination of the 72 given in the 
table which are available for study in this respect, shows them to be 
divided as follows : 
Dolichocephali (index of breadth, .730 and under) ..... 3 
Orthocephali i (index of breadth, .740-.00) ..... 2: yee We Hi 
Brachycephali (index of breadth, .800 and over) ....... 52 
Total, 2.208) eae ee 72 
In common with most, if not all, North American aboriginal crania, 
they are also characterized by a markedly pyramidal form as viewed 
anteriorly, this being due chiefly to their great zygomatic diameter, a 
feature characteristic of the mongoloid races generally. 
Flattening of the occiput, also a characteristic of most American 
aboriginal crania, doubtless due to the custom of strapping infants on 
a cradle-board, is a rule amongst these to which there are few excep- 
tions; and where, as is often the case, this flattening has been more or. 
less unilateral, plag/ocephalism or oblique asymmetry of the general 
cranial development, has resulted. 
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