Chapter XXVII: Munsee Crania: Suborbital (canine) Fossæ

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| 7 males | 12 females
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|Cases|Per cent|Cases|Per cent
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Deeply hollowed | — | — | — | —
Medium | 3 | 43 | 6 | 50
Shallow | 3 | 43 | 6 | 50
Only a trace of depression| 1 | 14 | — | —
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These fossæ are of evolutionary significance. In the anthropoid apes they are either entirely wanting or very nearly so, the region being in fact often moderately convex; and the same is true, so far as the evidence is available, of early man to the latter part of the Neanderthal period.

MALAR BONES. ZYGOMÆ

The malars among the Munsee are of moderate development throughout, and none of the bones shows any complete or even appreciable partial division or other anomaly. The zygomatic processes are rather submedium in strength as compared with those of other Indians, particularly in the males.

In one of the male skulls (no. 285,313) the right zygoma is represented only by a pointed but otherwise unaltered base, the rest of the bone, up to the malar suture, being absent. In all probability this condition is the result of an old fracture, after which the larger part of the zygoma was lost or remained separated.