Antiquities of central and southeastern Missouri / by Gerard Fowke.

  • Gerard Fowke
Date:
1910
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Credit: Antiquities of central and southeastern Missouri / by Gerard Fowke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Original no. 129 (exact locality not given): Lower female adult jaw; alveolar process prognathic; teeth normal, much worn. Measurements Diameterbigonial 9.9 cm. I Angle, right 146° Height at symphisis 3.8 cm. ) Angle, left 141° Original no. 131 (from Brenner mound no. 2): An adult male skull, very dolichocephalic, partially deformed. There is a slight flatten- ing on the frontal bone above the middle, on each side of the median line, seemingly produced by the pressure of two small pads, and there is also a quite marked occipital compression. The forehead is low, though showing distinct convexity. The supra-orbital ridges are prominent and the supraorbital border distad from them is protruding. Along the border, just mentioned, of the orbits are marks made by rodents’ teeth and also marks resembling knife cuts; and in the lower part of the right parietal, about the middle, there is a semicircular area bearing lines resembling cuts and also traces of rodents’ teeth; this is 3 cm. in diameter. Original no. 131a (locality probably the same as that of the previous specimen): A portion of a calvarium of an adult skull, sex not ascer- tainable. The right parietal shows several defective areas of different sizes, all approximating more or less to the circular in form, caused apparently by rodents; yet some of these areas may be due to human agency. Original no. 13If. (from the Saline County village site): Frontal por- tion of the calvarium of an adult female. The skull was apparently dolichocephalic. Diameter lateral maximum—the only measurement of importance determinable—13.4 cm. The walls are rather thin. V. S. Nat. Mus. no. 249679 ® (exact locality not given): Part of the vault of a skull, including most of the frontal and a small portion of the top of each parietal. The skull was probably that of a male beyond middle adult life. It was narrow and long in form, and not deformed. The bones are rather delicate for a male, the thickness of the front ranging from 3 to 5 mm. The specimen is interesting principally because of a low forehead, marked ventrally as well as dorsally. The supraorbital ridges are not excessive, but the border distad from them protrudes from the forehead proper, forming with the ridges a prominent supraorbital arc. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 249681 (from the Klamm mound, opposite Kansas City; see p. 72): Parts of an adult, male, dolichocephalic skull, of moderate size and average thickness of bones, with low a Discussed more in detail in the ‘‘New examples of modem Indian skulls with low forehead,” in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXV, 173,1908.