| Show ME L LORE 0 RE OF SKULLS GREAT STORY ORY TELLERS TO THOSE WHO CAN INTERPRET AHEM THEM chat with V a r Pro feor of shull skull Is I 1 in or of be the of human Ost Oleo lory Anc ancient lerit Fah nj of 0 the tile head it ia Is not generally known that probably the most complete museum of human is located in rochester under charge of professor charles IL ward who has an international reputation as an authority on this question skulls are great story tellers said professor ward for instance the original of this cast of tho the top of a B skull 11 overturned tho the theories of half of europe and probably its discovery was tho the most sensational thing in tho the realm of science of tho the decade before this piece of bone which you can hold in your hand was discovered nothing had been found which tended to show that human lifo life existed in tho period in tho the days of tho the cavo cave beat and other ante glacial fossils not only docs does the place where it was found ii indicate dicato all this but tho the skull comes comm nearer to supplying tho the much laughed at missing link than anything ever before discovered there is no quention quee ques tion tiou whatever that it is a portion of a human skull but the forehead is lower than that of any normally developed skull over found and the or orbital arch is heavier than ever before seen soon on a human skull this is ono of tho the most marked points of distinction between tho the skulls of a gorilla and of a man you can see what I 1 mean from this picture continued professor ward tho the arch is that of tho the eyebrow just 0 over ver the eyo eye socket ono of tho the most interesting things in tho the of skulls is tho the fashion of deforming tho the head prevailing among tho the races of north and south america it is accomplished by pressure g brought to bear on the skull through infancy the cliff dwellers flattened tho the back of tho the head skulls havo have been found on an island in the gulf of mexico which were divided into two lobes evidently produced by fastening a strap from tho the back of tho the neck to the forehead of tho the infant if thero there had bad been more travel in those d days ay 9 tho the fedon might havo have spread tho the fad of flattening the front of tho head ead h evidently prevailed among tho the ancient inhabitants of peru as the mummy remains clearly indicate and this has led to a behia belief that thero is somo some raco race connection between tho the ancient peruvians and tho the flathead Flath cad indians of today you can cco nee the effect produced by the process I 1 havo have described e 1 I from abi this 3 picture were this deformity produced on the head of a grown man it would be foli followed owed by insanity and death but tho the brains of the infant gradually ac no commodaro comm themselves to tho the new con dit dilious ious I 1 should il judge however that it i t would bo be difficult to havo have a very highly developed intellect with a skull of that shape hero you see bee is tho the skull of a peruvian lady of high rank wo we know that this was some inca quean by tho the pomp avith with which sho she was buried she paid tho the usual tribute to fashion or her parents did in having her skull flattened up to tho the latest style here laid said professor ward is tho the skull of a maiden of IS 18 years who with a number of her companions was knocked in tho the head with an ax and wa was 9 oaten on an island in new now zealand several centuries ago at a great feast I 1 I 1 for goodness sake how could you find out all that simply enough yon can tell it ill all for yourself with a little help of course we know from the where it was found that it was in a land where cannibalism annibal ism prevailed father found ao no lesa less than seven skulls all with a fracture acturo Fr liko like this horrid one where tho the victim was struck with an ax or some similar implement then all havo have tho the holo knocked in at the base of tho the skull evidently with the purpose of extra extracting ct the brain for tho human brain is considered a great delicacy by cannibal epi pictures picures pi cures wo know from the sharpness it of the edges of the orbital cavity and ather other infallible indications that this is a womans skull for an expert can always tell a malo from a female skull at a glance lastly you can seo see by counting ting for yourself that tho the dentition of this girls not complete and that therefore this is aa as I 1 havo have eaid said tho skull of a new zealand wai maiden denof of 17 or 18 1 I had hall a curious instance not long ago of tho way in which an observer can an find n story astory in a skull skeleton waa was sent mo me from a hospital in vienna to bo mounted tho the skull had not been opened the man hall been taken ill on the street suddenly and had been taken to tho the hospital in polishing tho the skull I 1 found a fine black line which would not como come out 1 I opened iho the skull and found that the lino line was a portion of tho the point of a blado which projected half an inch in abo he skull and d which had broken off so short that it would havo have been impossible to tell of what tho the man died unless the aku skull 11 bad had been opened as I 1 open opened edit it hero a murder mystery which tho tile law will never probe for the wound was mortal 1 rochester post express |
