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CHAPTER XXI -SKULLS FROM ANAU.I`

PLATE 92.

Figs. 1-3, No. z, A.N.K., + 25 feet.

Skull of adult individual, probably female, imperfect. Length, 185 mm.; breadth, 141 (?) mm.; index, 76.2. Height from auditory foramen to bregma, 107 mm. Frontal breadth, minima, 95 mm. Orbital width, left, 36 mm.; orbital height, 3o mm. ; index, 83.3. Malar bone, left, breadth, 25 mm. ; height, 26 mm. Nasal bone, left, length, 26 mm.; width, 10.5 mm. Angle of nasal bone with frontal, 130.7°. The skull is mesocephalic, chamæcephalic, with frontal suture; with inclined orbit; malar bone is small. Only the left part of the nasal bone; in form and type it is identical with the nasal bones of the Mediterranean race, and very different from the Mongolian type of nose. The skull is a pentagonoides.

Figs. 4-5, No. 2, A.N.K., Terrace III.

We complete this description with another fragment of adult skull, i. e., with one complete maxilla, and with part of the left mandible. Palato-maxillary breadth, 61 mm. ; length, 55 mm. Pyriform aperture of nose, width, 22 mm. Nasal height, 47 (?) mm. Index, 46.8. Spino-alveolar height, 23 mm. Little prophatnia or alveolar prognathism; teeth strongly worn.

PLATE 93.

Fig. I, No. 3, A.N.K., +23 feet.

Skull of child, 2 to 3 years, imperfect. Length, 166 mm.; breadth, 122 mm. ; index, 73.4. Maxilla of the same individual; it has the second molar milk tooth. Skull, ovoides, dolichocephalic.

Fig. 2, No. 4, A.N.K., +32 to +37 feet.

Skull from 2 to 3 years, imperfect. Length, 17o mm. ; breadth, 120 mm.; index, 70.5. Maxilla with mandible, with 2 milk molars. Pentagonoides, dolichocephalic, a little deformed.

Fig. 3, No. 5, A.N.K., —ii feet.

Skull of child, 4 to 5 years, imperfect, without the frontal bone. Breadth, 124 mm.; length, from 170 to 175 mm. (calculated) ; index, from 72.9 to 70.8. Dolichocephalic, probably ellipsoides cuneatus. The left fragment of mandible has 2 milk molars.

Fig. 4, No. 6, A.N.K., +32 to +37 feet.

Skull of child, imperfect. Length, 188 mm. ; breadth, 125 mm. ; index, 66.4. Ultra-dolichocephalic, ellipsoides, very long.

Fig. 5, 'No. 9, A.N.K., +25 feet.

Fragment of skull of child, ellipsoides cuneatus. Breadth (probably), 124 mm.

* Although the skulls found in our excavations were as a rule badly crushed, Mr. Landon Warner was able to save the more important parts of several individuals. Professor Sergi has kindly volunteered to examine these and gives the results herewith.—R. P.

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