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Show 63 used as beads, and by a large spine- fragment of a recent Echinus, which I noticed among some pieces collected by Mr. Jackson. It would exceed the limits of these pages, to the preparation of which we could devote but a few days, to make any further remarks which would so readily suggest themselves. Evidently, the ruins in question bear testimony of one of the earliest centers of civilization in this country, and would well repay the investigations of a critical anthropologist. Let us hope that ere long such investigation'may be undertaken. X. B.- All the drawings contained in the following plates are orthographic figures, made by means of a diopter, and reduced with a pantograph from natural size.' j PLATE 23. Fig. 1.- Lateral view of skull No. 1. Fig. 2.- Frontal view of the same. PLATE 24. Fig. 3.- Occipital view of skull No. 1. Fig. 4.- Lateral view of the same. PLATE 25. Fig. 5.- Basal view of sknll Mo. 1. Fig. 6.- Lateral view of skull No. 2. PLATE 26. Fig. 7.- Frontal view of skull No. 2. Fig. 8.- Occipital view of the same. PLATE 27. Fig. 9.- Vertical view of skull No. 2. Fig. 10.- Basal view of the same. Owing to the faulty shading of the occipital region, the occipital bone does not appear to turn upward as abruptly from the posterior margin of the great foramen as it actually does. PLATE 28. Fig. 11.- Frontal view of skull No. 3. Fig. 12.- Vertical view of the same. PLATE 29. Fig. 13.- Lateral view of skull No. 3. Fig. 14.- The heaviest outline of the diagram represents a profile- view of skull 1179 ( Catalogue U. S. A. Med. Museum) from Abiquiu. The less heavy line represents the same view of a Guatemala Indian, No. 276 of the catalogue, and referred to on page 56L while the dotted liue represents the profile of a Peruvian, No. 250 of the catalogue, ana mentioned on the same page. |
