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THE AEAUCANIANS. 243
PLATE LXVIII.
ARAUCANIAN CHIEF.
This is the cranium of another Araucanian chief named Chilicoi, who was
killed in the same battle with the subject of the preceding plate. I received it
also from Dr. Casanova, who could give no additional particulars. The eye is
struck with the projecting face and: consequent small facial angle, the low forehead,
the flattened vertex, and the smallness of the whole head.
MEASUREMENTS.
Longitudinal diameter, . . 6.7 inches.
Parietal diam e ter,................................................ 5.4 inches..
Frontal diameter, . . . . 4.7 inches.
Vertical diameter, ................................................. 4.9 inches.
Inter-mastoid arch, . . . • • • 14.2 inches.
Inter-mastoid line, . . . . 4.9 inches.
Occipito-frontal arch, 13.4 inches.
Horizontal p e r i p h e r y , ....................................... 19.5 inches.
Internal capacity, . . 77. cubic inches.
Capacity of the anterior chamber, . 32. cubic inches.
Capacity of the posterior chamber, . 45. -cubic inches.
Capacity of the coronal region, . . . . 11.9 cubic inches.
Facial angle, . . . . . 72 degrees.
The three Araucanian skulls in my collection give a mean internal capacity
of seventy-nine cubic inches, which is much more than that of the Peruvians, and
a little less than the average of the collective American race. The mean facial
angle gives barely seventy-five degrees.