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134 A Study of the Crania of the Moriori 
Plate IX, No. 765, and Plate X, No. 76532, g^yg ^j^g norma lateralis, left 
and right profiles respectively, of typical female crania. We see the same 
features as in the male, the massive frontal, marked temporal lines, receding 
fades temporoUs, and the elevation and recession of the vertex produced by the 
sagittal crest. These features are less emphasised than in the male, but are in 
striking contrast to the female characters of less primitive races. 
Plates XI and XII provide the noma verticalis and norma hasalis of a typical 
female. No. 763. In Plate XI we see the pear-shaped vertical aspect*, and in 
Plate XII the characteristic palate, and the asymmetrical foramen. 
Plates XIII and XIV further illustrate in a male cranium, No. 765^, the racial 
characteristics. Plate XIII shows in the norma hasalis a marked asymmetry of 
the foramen as well as the general massiveness of the base. Plate XIV, the 
norma lateralis, right profile, gives the usual primitive factors of massive frontal 
sinuses, receding forehead, sagittal crest and vertical ramus; but the vertex in 
this case while markedly elevated does not recede ; as the sagittal contour of this 
cranium indicates it is practically at the apex. 
Plates XV and XVI give norma lateralis, left profile, and norma occipitalis 
of a male skull, No. 762. Besides all the usual racial features of which the 
depression of th.e, fades temporalis is especially marked, we see a rarely occurring 
ossicle of the coronal suture, and a protrusion of the occipital almost amounting 
to bathrocephaly. Plate XVI indicates the source of this in the conglomeration 
of ossicles in the lambdoid suture. 
Plates XVII and XVIII reproduce another male skull, No. 765^'', with massive 
frontal, receding forehead, depressed fades temporalis and sagittal crest. Plate 
XVII, the norma lateralis, left profile, shows an epipteric f . Plate XVIII, the norma 
facialis, indicates how much of the frontal bulge is really due to glabellar protrusion, 
and how little nasal resemblance the Moriori has to the Negro. 
We conclude this series of photographs with reproductions of two crania of 
some interest. Plate XIX, No. 765^^, shows a cranium with marked para- 
occipital processes articulating with the atlas. Macdonell has figured in Plate X 
of his memoir on the Liverpool Street English crania J a case of imilateral para- 
occipital process of a like character, the present Moriori instance is bilateral. 
Plates XX, XXI and XXII of a male skull, No. 765^, illustrate how without 
surgical aid recovery from a serious injury is possible in a primitive people. The 
* The pear-shaped cranium of Plate XI should be compared with the pear-shaped cranium Plate XI 
of MacdonelFs paper, Bio^netrika, Vol. v. p. 104. The reader will understand at once what we mean 
by the heavy temporal lines and the depression of the fades temporalis in the Moriori. Indeed, if the 
reader will compare the pliotograplis of the norma veriicalis in Macdonell's two papers (Biometrika, 
Vol. m. p. 216, and Vol. v. p. 104) on the English skull, with our Plate XI, he will appreciate why the 
Moriori horizontal type contour differs so essentially from the English horizontal type contour. 
I regret that I have not provided more Moriori photographs illustrating this essential difference. 
In the Moriori crania the norma verticalis shows the temporal ridges, in the English they rarely 
appear at all. 
I The curved dental arch is also worthy of note. J Biomefrilco , Vol. v. p, 104. 
