REPORT ON THE HUMAN CRANIA. 
51 
ADMIRALTY ISLANDERS. 
Plates IIP, IV., AC, VI. Tables VII., VIII., XVIII., XIX. 
The skulls from the Admiralty Islands were the most valuable part of the craniological 
collection, as apparently no Europeans had landed on these islands prior to the visit of 
H.M.S. Challenger, and skulls of the natives were unknown in our museums. They were 
collected in March 1875, in villages on the coast of Wild Island, one of the small islands 
off the north-western end of the main island, whilst the Challenger lay at her anchorage 
in Nares Harbour. 
An interestiug account of the physical characteristics of the inhabitants of these 
islands has been published by H. N. Moseley, Esq., one of the naturalists to the Expedition , 1 
and as it will be useful to bring his description alongside of that which I am about to 
give of the crania, I reproduce it here. 
TABLE VII. — “ Physical characteristics . — The following measurements were taken : — 
Measurements in inches of Natives of the Admiralty Islands, taken by the late R. von 
AVillemoes Suhm, being of Natives of Wild Island, except 6, 7, 8, 9, taken on board 
the ship by von Suhm and H. N. Moseley. 
Height. 
Breadth. 
Arm 
Length. 
Leg 
Length. 
Foot 
Length. 
Hand 
Length. 
Nose 
Length. 
Forehead 
Length. 
Ear 
Length. 
Breasts 
Length. 
1. Old woman ; 40 years ca., 
60 
15 
28 
10 
7 
7 
2. Young girl ; 15 years ca., 
* 
61 * 
15 
25 
33 
H 
11 
24 
l 
3. Older women of mean size, 
4. Old female, . 
60 
63 
12 
25 
9 
10 
64 
8 
2 
3 
64 
Mean, 
61 
14 
26 
33 
94 
74 
2 
3 
24 
6f 
Mouth 
Length. 
Penis 
Length. 
Weight 
in IDs. 
1. Young man, . 
67 
16 
29 
37 
94 
7 
2 
2 
2-1 
24 
2. Adult, 
63 
18 
28 
85 
104 
7 
9 2 
Z 8 
3 
Ol 
-8 
3. Adult, 
63 
m 
27J 
34 
94 
2 
24 
H 
4. Adult, 
66 
m 
284 
24 
5. Oto, 
67 
m 
§ 
6. Adult, 
64| 
122 
7. Adult (photographed), 
63 
9| 
8. Adult, 
m 
274 
334 
101 
8 
3 
3 
3 
3 
133 
9. Young man, . 
66f 
16 
27 
34 
10 
74 
2 
3f 
34 
126 
Mean, 
64£ 
17 j 
23 
34f 
9| 
74 
2 
3 
3 
3 
n 
127 
1 On the Inhabitants of the Admiralty Islands, Journ. Anthrop. hist., May 1877 
