BREGMA AND INCA BONES

Among the 20 crania in which conditions with respect to these facts

could be ascertained, there was found one bregma or fontanel bone (3

× 3.1 cm.), and one of the so-called Inca[44] bones (diameter, 8.3 ×

3.5 cm.). There is nothing especially noteworthy in these occurrences,

both of which, particularly the Inca bone, are of the nature of

developmental anomalies.

[44] The term is used merely for convenience.

_Pterions._—Among the 19 Munsee skulls in which the pterions could

be determined there was no case of temporo-frontal contact. In all

instances the pterion was of the H type, predominantly narrow in the

males and predominantly medium to broad in the females.

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