. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PHYSICAL ETHNOLOGY. 245 Messrs. Squier and Davis's " Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi ; A careful examination of tlie original, however, brings out features of this remarkable skull, by no means apparent in the engravings. The vertical view, especially, is inaccurate. In the original it presents the peculiar character- istics of what I have before designated the truncated form: passing abruptly from a broad flattened oc
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PHYSICAL ETHNOLOGY. 245 Messrs. Squier and Davis's " Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi ; A careful examination of tlie original, however, brings out features of this remarkable skull, by no means apparent in the engravings. The vertical view, especially, is inaccurate. In the original it presents the peculiar character- istics of what I have before designated the truncated form: passing abruptly from a broad flattened occiput to its extreme parietal breadth, and then taper- ing, with slight lateral swell, until it reaches its least breadth, immediately behind the external angular processes of the frontal bone. The occiput has been subjected to the flattening process to a much greater extent than is apparent from the drawings; but at the same time it is accompanied by no corresponding affection of the frontal bone, such as inevitably results from the procedure of the Chinooks and other Flathead tribes; among whom the desired cranial deforma- tion is effected by bandages crossing the forehead and consequently modifying the frontal as much as the parietal and occipital bones. On this account, great as is the amount of flattening in this remarkable skull, it is probably due solely to the iindesigned pressure of the cradle-board acting on a head of markedly brachycephalic proportions and great natural posterior breadth. The forehead is fully arched, the glabella prominent, and the whole character of the frontal bone-is essentially different from the Indian type. The sutures are very much ossified, and even to some extent obliterated. The '' Scioto mound cranium," the best authenticated and most characteristic. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perf
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