108 
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its extreme elongation and narrowness provide points of 
distinct contrast. 
(d) In these very characters the Kikuyu skull resembles 
the skull of a young female native of Somaliland. The speci- 
men was presented to the Cambridge Museum by Mr. Drake- 
Brockman, but no details as to the locality or tribe are given. 
(e) The small capacity and size as well as the marked 
elongation of the Kikuyu skull distinguish it from those 
commonly found in the Southern Bantu tribes. Its great 
length also prevents a just comparison with skulls of Central 
African pygmies. 
(/) Great elongation, narrowness, and small capacity are 
distinctive of the Australian aboriginal cranium. Yet the 
Kikuyu skull lacks completely the carinate or scaphoid 
character of the transverse cranial arc, so marked in many 
Australian crania. The steeply-rising brow and the flat (not 
up -curved) nasal bones provide a further means of distinction. 
(g) The resemblance of the ancient Kikuyu skull to the 
Somaliland skull has been mentioned ( cf . para, d.) I should 
not be surprised to find similar specimens in the Sudan, nor 
in South-West Africa. 
Beyond such general indications, I am not in a position to 
suggest any means of referring this specimen to one rather 
than another of the more clearly-distinguishable negro or 
negroid types met with in the African continent. 
REPORT ON A KIKUYU SKULL 
Table op Measurements, etc. 
Maximum length 
183 
Parietal chord (vertical) 
89 
Maximum breadth 
124*5 
Maximum frontal width 
108 
Basal height 
114 
Auricular height 
104 
Basi-nasal length 
100 
Horizontal circumference . 
503 
Basi-alveolar length . 
98 (?) 
Transverse arc ( supra - 
Facial height (N-Pr.) . 
65 (?) 
auricular) 
270 
Nasal height 
49 
Frontal arc 
120 (?) 
„ width 
25*5 
Parietal arc 
104 (?) 
Orbital height . 
36 
Occipital arc 
128 (?) 
„ width . 
42 
Frontal chord . 
105 (?) 
Palatal length . 
54 
Parietal „ 
92 (?) 
„ width . 
58 
Occipital „ 
95 (?) 
Mandible : width at angle . 
82 
Parietal height (arc) . 
104 
Gonion to Symphysion 
74 
