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EEPOET ON A SKULL FEOM 
mastoids are feminine or infantile in their smallness, and expose 
part of the digastric groove. At the pterion, the parietal and 
alisphenoid seem to have articulated. 
Fig. 1 . — Ancient Kikuyu 
skull in norma verti- 
calis. (xj.) 
Fig. 2. — Ancient Kikuyu skull in 
norma lateralis, (x J.) 
The facial view (fig. 3) shows an evenly -rounded transverse 
arc. The orbits are rectangular : their axes are nearly hori- 
zontal. The outer orbital margin is bevelled. 
The nasal bones are small and flat, but still they are slightly 
inclined towards each other, so that a slight median ridge 
Fig. 3. — Ancient Kikuyu 
skull in norma facialis. 
(x i.) 
Fig. 4. — Ancient Kikuyu 
skull in norma occi- 
pitalis. ( x £.) 
marks the line of contact (this is in contrast with the so-called 
typical nasal bones in the African negro races). The pyriform 
aperture is not tapered above. Its lower margins are absent, 
leaving the simian grooves. 
