The skulls are of good size, but otherwise are characterized by
moderate development. There is no massiveness, no heavy supraorbital
arches or crests, no heavy jaws. It is plain that they did not belong
to a tribe of great huntsmen or warriors.
The frontal region, though prevalently somewhat low in the females,
in a large majority of the cases is well arched; the zygomæ are not
excessively broad, the malar bones not heavy. The nose is rather short,
the face only mildly prognathic. The dental arches, as in the majority
of Indians, are very regular, and the same applies to the medium sized
teeth. The vault of the skull from above is either ovoid (58 per cent)
or elliptical (42 per cent), while the outline of the norma posterior
approaches more or less the pentagonal.
In addition there may be mentioned an unusual scarcity of Wormian bones
and an equal sparsity of marked anomalies. These and other features are
treated in detail in another part of this paper. (See pp. 35, 47.)