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0285 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 / Page 285 (Color Image)

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PLATE 92.

*Figs. 1–3, No. 1, 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, 30 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. 1, 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, 170 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., −11 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.

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