A journey to Ashango-Land, and further penetration into equatorial Africa . FiV. Fig. 9. Skull, Aged Female- Fan Tribe. 7. Front View. 8. Side View. 9. Base View App. I. AGED FEMALE OF THE FAN TEIBE. 449 become bevelled off to an edge, after the fashion ofthe scalpriform incisors of Rodents. The cranium, though smaller, resembles in generalform and proportions that of the male Fan. Theusual sutures, however, remain. The lambdoid is narrow, and the crenation hardlygrows to crenulation toward the lower and outerend of the suture, where a small wormian iswedged between the mastoid and super-o
A journey to Ashango-Land, and further penetration into equatorial Africa . FiV. Fig. 9. Skull, Aged Female- Fan Tribe. 7. Front View. 8. Side View. 9. Base View App. I. AGED FEMALE OF THE FAN TEIBE. 449 become bevelled off to an edge, after the fashion ofthe scalpriform incisors of Rodents. The cranium, though smaller, resembles in generalform and proportions that of the male Fan. Theusual sutures, however, remain. The lambdoid is narrow, and the crenation hardlygrows to crenulation toward the lower and outerend of the suture, where a small wormian iswedged between the mastoid and super-occipital onthe left side. The occipital condyles are less convex,more worn down, than in the male skulls, as if fromthe practice of carrying weight on the head. Thelower curved ridge of the occiput is well defined, andthe surface between it and the foramen magnumshows the usual characters of muscular attachment,but there is neither an upper curved ridge nor occi-pital spine, and the surface above the lower ridge isconvex, and smooth like the rest of the outer part ofthe super-occ
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