T A B L E I I .
A m e r i c a n C r a n i a .
Barbarous Tribes. No. of Skulls
measured.
Mean
I. 0. Toltecan Race. No. of Skulls
measured.
Mean
I. C.
North Americans.
76
Peruvian Family.
14 ... 79
74.9
74
78
90 T> L
79 44
82 . 6 ......
....... 4 ...... 88.7 5 78
79.5 tv/t u 7 75.5
..... . 2 ...... 91
p m 3 ...... 86
...... 4 . . . # 88.7 • Mexican Family.
....... 1 ....... 90 Tlahuica. .................. 84
Azteck......................... ....... 2 ....... 80.5
79.5 Otumba....................... 82.6
Tacuba.................. . 1 81.6
88.5
84
Otomie................... ....... 5 i ...... 76.6
Chechemecap............ ....... 1 ....... 83
Tlascalan. . ...... 1 ....... 84
86.5 79.5
Miscellaneous............. ....:. 4 ....... 87
Modern Mexicans...... ....... 8 ....... 82.6
Osage..................... 82.5
85.6
...... 4 ....... 81.7
....... 2 ....... 93.5
....* 2 ....... 74.5
....... 1 ....... 80
....... 3 ....... 91
....... 2 ....... 90.7
....... 13 ...... 84
....... 4 ....... 89.6
....... 4 ....... 80.7 *•«,* I f we take the collective races |
......i 2 ....... 94 of America, civilized and savage we
....... 2 ...... 89
....... 1 ....... 70
87
84.8
as measured in the
....... 1 .......
Miscellaneous,
......1 27 .......
skulls, is but bO.o cubic inches.
Uncertain, &c. J
91
South Americans.
76
....... 3 ....... 73.6
&.... l ....... 89
Upon those outstretched desert wastes which skirt the Icy Sea —
the frozen tundras of Siberia, and the barren lands of America —
amidst the snowy isiands and everlasting icebergs of the Polar Ocean
f . ’ ^ u m a n f am il7 P r e s e n ts u s w i th a c r a n i a l f o rm o r ty p e to
w h ic h th e l e a r n e d P r ich ar b h a s v e r y h a p p ily a p p lie d th e
midal Amongst all the Hyperboreans, whose life is one continued
struggle with a stern and rugged nature, the central and far northern
Eskimos present us with the most strongly marked specimens of this
type. I have been induced, therefore, to select, as the standard or
typical representative of Arctic Man, a well-characterized Eskimo
cranium, procured by that zealous and intrepid navigator, Dr E K
K ane, during his first voyage to the Horth, and by him kindly placed,’
along with three other specimens, in the collection of our Academy.
Through the kindness of Dr. 1. 1. H ates and Dr. J. K. K ane, I have
been enabled to mature my studies of the pyramidal form over seven
Eskimo skulk m all, a detailed account of which I hope shortly to
be able to present to the ethnological public through another channel.
Ihe following brief rSmmS of the-characteristics of an Eskimo cranium
will serve as a commentary upon the accompanying figures
whmh represent the front and lateral views of the head above men-
ioned (Ho. 1558 of the Mortonian collection). The male Eskimo-
Fig. 11.
Fig. 10.
E sk im o .
Lateral view of Cranium.
(From Dr. Kane’s First Arctic Voyage. )
SSBSS '™S’ m " ° w’ I M l « « » to t toe„dtt, H the
m m m S “ndf f i - M
t o ! ' JUn? 0n panetal and two halyes of the frontal bones •
E H E E i and efface T l to 5 !
UH liBWH 9 P and facial h*a»lv es of the occipito-mental tempcml muscle
8 10 f0SS8e deeP and capacious; mastoid processes thick and