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Boas’s finding, which was that the cranial index of children born in America differed from that of children of the same background born in Europe, rocked the field.

The interior mountain tribes of Fiji have narrower heads and lower cranial indices than do the coastal and eastern groups.

The skull is dolichocephalic with an average cranial index of 72, prognathous and platyrrhine.

All these “osseous remains” belong to the palaeolithic period, and from the cranial indices it is thus clear that palaeolithic man was long-headed.

Order in progress upwards of cranial indices: 8—13—3—6–20—5—ll—7—1—16—18—2—14—9—15—4—12—17—19—10.