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A Study of the Negro Skull 
A. Congo Crania in the Royal College of Surgeons, measured by Dr Benington 
at the suggestion of Professor Keith. These crania, belonging to the Batetela 
tribe, provide 50 males and 27 females and 5 non-adult, although it has not 
been possible to obtain a complete series of measurements on all of them. 
There are no mandibles. Professor Keith has kindly given us the following 
account of their origin : 
The Collection of Batetela crania was brought home by Mr E. Torday in 1909 when he had 
completed his travels and explorations in the eastern central parts of the Congo Free State. He 
gives the following account of them. 
" The Batetela skulls were collected by the natives of one or two villages near Makunji. 
They may be considered as mostly fresh ; some were not quite dry when I received them. I was 
assured that all had died from sleeping sickness and they were given to me to find a remedy for 
that disease. Sleeping sickness did not appear in this part until thirty to forty years ago. 
The district in which they were gathered does not cover more than three or four square miles." 
The Batetela occupy a large area between 9° and 6° S. and 24° — 26° E. The Sungu Batetela 
are about 24° 20' E. and 4° 50' S. Their village is Mokunji or Mukunji, quite close to the Labefu 
River, the most eastern tributary of the Sankuru. 
Some of the crania show marks of having been cut or notched in the supra-orbital region. 
Parts of the bone may have been removed for medicinal purposes. 
B. Crania from the Gaboon, Group I, brought by Du Chaillu from Fernand 
Vaz in 1864. This and the following series appear never to have been adequately 
measured, still less properly discussed. There are 50 male and 44 female crania 
in this series. This and the following series are in the British Museum (Natural 
History), South Kensington. 
C. Crania from the Gaboon, Group II, brought by Du Chaillu from Fernand Vaz 
in 1880. There are only IS male and 19 female in this series, and the numbers 
being so small it has not been considered worth while calculating more than 
the means. 
D. Zulu Crania. Twenty male crania measured by Dr Shrubsall. The 
measurements are published in his paper on " A Study of A-Bantu Skulls and 
Crania," in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. I, p. 55 et seq., London, 
1899. They belong to the Eastern group of Southern Bantus, inhabiting country 
south of Zambesi. 
E. Angoni Crania. Thirty-eight male crania measured by Dr Shrubsall. 
The measurements are given in the memoir just cited. The crania were sent by 
Sir H. H. Johnston to the British Museum {Natural History), who wrote about 
them as follows (Shrubsall, p. 77): "The skulls that I sent you were obtained by 
me in M'ponda's town at the south end of Lake Nyasa. . I was given to understand 
that they were the skulls of Angoni hostages, who had been slaughtered by 
M'ponda, The heads were taken by me off the stakes of M'ponda's stockade. If, 
as I imagine, they are the heads of Angoni, they would be the heads of a slightly 
mixed negro race mainly belonging to the Anyanja stock with a slight Zulu inter- 
mixture. It is possible, however, that one or more of them may be Yaos mixed 
