1898 - 99 .] Sir W. Turner on Sculptured Skulls , New Guinea. 567 
cephalic skull from Port Moresby, which was presented by Dr 
Lamrock. 
Subsequently to the last date, I am indebted to Mr W. E. 
M‘Farlane for four skulls from Kwato,* near Dinner Island, a 
little to the east of the South Cape ; and to Mr D. C. L. Fitzwilliams 
for a skull from Geelvink Bay, in the Dutch settlement in the north- 
west of the island, said to have belonged to the Wandessie tribe. 
The skulls from Kwato were from the same locality. They are 
all adult, — two males, and two apparently females. The base 
around the foramen magnum had been broken, probably to assist 
in the removal of the brain, or perhaps for room to receive a pole. 
In three crania so much had been destroyed that the internal 
capacity, basi-bregmatic height, and several other measurements 
could not be taken. The lower jaw was absent in each specimen. 
One male and one female skull, when seen from the norma 
verticalis , were ovoid in shape, and had dolichocephalic propor- 
tions, the mean length-breadth index of the two being 7 2 -6. 
The height could be measured only in the male, and it exceeded 
the breadth by 10 mm. In the male the parietal longitudinal arc 
exceeded the frontal, but the opposite condition was present in the 
woman’s skull. In the man the upper jaw was prognathic, index 
105*2 ; the nasal index was mesorhine, the orbital index was 
almost in the mesoseme group, and the palato-maxillary index was 
in the lower term of the mesuranic group. The characters of this 
skull were definitely Melanesian, and those of the woman were in 
the main in the same category. 
In the other two crania the breadth was proportionately greater, 
so that the man’s skull had a cephalic index 77*2, and' the woman’s 
8T2. In the man the parietal longitudinal arc exceeded the 
frontal, in the woman the opposite condition was seen. Neither 
showed any indication of parieto-occipital flattening. In both the 
nasal hones were depressed at the nasion; they had a concave 
bridge, their projection forwards was feeble, and the nasal index 
was leptorhine. The incisive region of the upper jaw inclined very 
slightly forwards, and the orbital index was microseme in one, 
mesoseme in the other. The presence of a hrachycephalic skull 
in the Kwato group gives another example to those previously 
* These skulls were sent to Mr MTarlane by the Rev. C. W. Abel. 
