. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . fectly Fig. typical of the race. Longitudinal diameter, 6-5 inches; parietal,6-5; frontal, 4 0; vertical, 5-6. Internal capa-city, 68-5 cubic inches. Morton supplies the measurements of twenty-three adult skulls of the pure Inca race, fromthe cemetery called Pachacamac, or the Templeof the Sun, near Lima; obtained and presentedto him by Dr. Ruschenberger, U. S. N. As thissepulchre was res
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . fectly Fig. typical of the race. Longitudinal diameter, 6-5 inches; parietal,6-5; frontal, 4 0; vertical, 5-6. Internal capa-city, 68-5 cubic inches. Morton supplies the measurements of twenty-three adult skulls of the pure Inca race, fromthe cemetery called Pachacamac, or the Templeof the Sun, near Lima; obtained and presentedto him by Dr. Ruschenberger, U. S. N. As thissepulchre was reserved for the exclusive use ofthe higher class of Peruvians, it is reasonable toinfer that the skulls thence disinterred belongedto persons of intelligence and distinction; al-though I am aware that Rivero and Tschudi express doubts that any of these can havebelonged to royal Peruvian The largest cranium of this series yields an internal capacity of 89-5 cubic inches, whichis a fraction short of the Caucasian mean; while the smallest measures but 60. The meanof the whole is but 73 cubic inches. The following examples of Mexican heads suffice to show the identity of the two Mexicans. This (Fig. 311) is arelic of the genuineToltecan stock, hav-ing been exhumedfrom an ancient ce-metery at Cerro deQ u e s i 1 a s, near thecity of Mexico. Itwas accompanied bynumerous antique ves-sels, weapons, &c, in-dicating a personageof distinction. Thiscranium was broughtfrom the city ofMexico by the R. Poinsett, and byhim presented to theAcademy of Sciencesof Philadelphia. Longitudinal diam-eter, 7-1 inches; pa-rietal, 5-7; frontal,4-4; vertical, 5-2. In-ternal capacity, 83cubic inches. A remarkably-wellcharacterized head(Fig. 313) from anancient tomb near thecity of Mexico, whenceit was exhumed witha great variety of an- Fia. Fia. 312.
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