Chapter XIV: Munsee Crania: Occlusion of Sutures

(EXTERNALLY, ALL GRADES)
-----------------+---------------+---------------
| 9 males | 12 females
+-----+---------+-----+---------
|Cases|Per cent |Cases|Per cent
| |of skulls| |of skulls
-----------------+-----+---------+-----+---------
Coronal | 6 | 67 | 4 | 33
Sagittal | 7 | 78 | 4 | 33
Lambdoid | 2 | 22 | 2 | 17
Temporo-occipital| 5 | 56 | 5 | 42
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WORMIAN BONES

The frequency of Wormian bones in any given series of skulls, while a factor of no great importance, is always of some interest. It is certain that in this respect there is a wide difference even in different groups of the same people, such as the Indians. Among the Munsee, as already mentioned, we find a remarkable scarcity of these ossicles, especially in the males. Not only are the Wormian bones scarce in this series, but they are also invariably small. This scarcity may in all probability be regarded as a sign of the absence of all disturbances, developmental as well as pathological.