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THE LORE OF SKULLS
GREAT STORY TELLERS TO THOSE
WHO CAN INTERPRET THEM.
N. HANAU.
Chat With a rrof. -nor of Sknlt-nlnicjr Who
! In Clinrt-o ItoHirxtrr Mtiwnol
if llnmnn Osteology Anrlritt FnnhlonS
off I informing Hie Htn1.
ft i tu t tvivTi 'Mt pro1-
ably the most cnmplete itinseitm of hu
man osteology Is located in Rochester
under chatge of Professor Chnrles II.
Ward, who hits nil Interim tionul repn
tiitioti lis ii ti imlliority on this question.
"Skulls are grent story tellers," sulci
Professor Wnnl. "For instance, the
original of thi eiist of tlio top of n
skull overturned the theories of Imlf
of Europe, nnd prolmhly Its diseorery
was the most si iisutiouul thing in the
realm of science of tho decade. liefore
this piece of bone, which you can hold
in your hand, was discovered, nothing
had been found which tended to show
that human life existed in the pregla
clal period, in the days of tho cave bear
and other autcglucinl fotsuils. Not
only doea the pi nee where it was found
indicate all this, but the skull cornea
nearer to supplying the much laughed
at 'missing link' than anything ever
before discovered. There ia no question
whatever that it ia a portion of a hu
man skull, lint the forehead is lower
than that of any normally developed
skull ever found, and the superciliary or
aupororhital arch ia heavier than ever
before seeu on a human skull. This Is
one of the most marked points of dis
tinction between the skulls of a gorilla
and of a man.
" Yon can see what 1 mean from this
picture," continued Professor Ward.
"Tho arch is that of tho eyebrow, just
over the eye socket.
"Ono of tho most interesting things
in tho ology of skulls is tho fashion of
deforming the head prevailing among
the savage races of North and South
America, it is accomplished by pres
sure brought to bear on the skull
through infancy. The cliff dwellers
flattened tho back of the head. Skulls
have been found on an itiland in the
gulf of Mexico which were divided in
to two lobes, evidently produced by fas
tening a strap from tho back of the
neck to tho forehead of tho infant. If
there had been more travel in those
days, the fashion might have spread.
The fad of flattening the front of the
head evidently prevailed among the
ancient inhabitants of Peru, as the
mummy remains clearly indicate, and
this haa led to a belief that there is
some race connection between the an
cient Peruvians and tho Flathead In
dians of today.
" Vou can see tho effect produced by
the process 1 have described from this
picture. Wore this deformity produced
on the head of a grown man, it would
be followed by insanity and death, bnt
the brains of the infant gradually ac
commodate themselves to the new con
ditions, I should judge, however, that it
would be difficult to have a very highly
developed intellect with a skull of that
shape. Here, yon see, is the skull of
Peruvian lady of high rank. We
know that this was some Inca queen by
the pomp with which Bhe was buried.
She paid the nsual tribute to fashion,
or her parents did, in having her skull
flattened up to the latost stylo.
"Here," said Professor Ward, "is
the skull of a maiden of 18 years, who,
with a number of her companions, was
knocked in the head with an as and
was eaten on an island in New Zealand
several centuries ago at a great feast."
" For goodness' sake, how could yon
find out all that?"
"Simply enough. Ton can tell it
all for yourself, with a little help. Of
course we know from the place where it
was found that it was in a land where
cannibalism prevailed. Father found
no loss than seven skulls, all with a
fracture like this horrid one, where the
victim was struck with an ax or some
similar implement Thon all have the
hole knocked in at the base of the skull,
evidently with the purpose of extract
ing the brain, for the human brain is
considered a great delicacy by cannibal
epicures. We know from the sharpness
of the edges of the orbital cavity and
other infallible indications that this is
a woman's skull, for an expert can al
ways tell a male from a female skull at
a glance. Lastly, you can see by
counting for yourself that the dentition
of this girl's skull is not complete, and
that therefore this Is, as I have said,
the skull of a New Zealand maiden of
17 or 18.
"1 had a curious instance not long
ago of tho way in which an observer
can find a story in a skull. A skeleton
was sent me from a hospital in Vienna
to be mounted. The skull had not
been opened. The man had been taken
ill on the street suddenly and had
been taken to the hospital. In polish
ing the skull I found a fine black line
which would not come out I opened
the skull and found that the line was a
portion of the point of a blade which pro
jected half an inch in the skull, and
which had broken off so short that it
would nave been impossible to tell of
what the man died unless the skull had
been opened as I opened it. Here was a
murder mystery which the law will
never probe, for tho wound was mor
tal. " Rochester Post-Express.
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vania has beeu supposed have been great
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of glacial action hud been discovered
at a loftier elevation than this, but John
0. Bravner has explored Elk mountain,
which ia bclioved to be the highest
point in northern Pennsylvania, and
thore be found scratches made by the
ice at an altitude of about 8,700 feet
It is evidont therefore, that the ice
sheet which overspread this region dar
ing the glacial epoch must have been
thicker than geologists have hitherto
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