The morning call., 1892-09-15
A Lo,c Order of Humanity.

buff or brown hue and lacks the black spots
or diScolOrations of the other skulls.
The brow is low, showing a low grade in
the scale of human intelligence.
The distance from the eyebows to the
crown of the skull, measured perpendicu-
larry, is not more than an inch and half.
From the eyebrows the skull slopes back
ward at frightfnl degree.
There Is practically no forehead.
Scarcely a single CLEAN of intelligence
conld have illuminated that low brow when
it was animated by life.
1t is a monkeys brow, though the other
features of the skull stamp IL Enthusiastically
as that of human being.
1t is such brow as you would expect 10
find on the head of an IDIOT.
But aside from the extremely low brow
the head OF the skull Is well shaped, except
perhaps the occipital bone, which has an
unduly enlarged bump where phren ologsts
declare the seat of amativeness is lodged.
This enlargement is, OF course, ia keeping
with the low forehead.
And together these are indisputable evil
denees that this particular savage, il not
the entire race to which be belonged was
removed but few degrees from the brute
creation.
There is cunning, cruelty and an excess
of amstiveness in that human Uranium.
That is all.
In vain you look for intelligence or intel
leetnality.
1t is not there.
The skull was only one of several very
valuable finds made yesterday, but it was
by far the most important
st O'clock in the morning the Aradas-
Michael and Thomas. father and son-were
at work on the mound pursuant 10 iBstruc-
tions issued BY the officers of the California
Academy OF Natural Sciences.
BY 10 o'clock Dr. Hardness and Director
Davis arrived at the scene, and few hours
later Secretary Scnpham appeared.
The digging for the academy was COM
menced In an entirely new place, a little to
the northeast OF the trench exeayated for
The CALL.
At depth OF about four feet the first
finds were found.
These consisted of miscellaneous coIlec
tion OF human and brute bones and a stone
| pestle.
Like the skull found later in the day, the
pestle was perfect in shape and preserva-
| tion.
A little less than foot in length. perhaps
two inches 10 diameter, rounded off at both
| ends, having no corners and perfectly
smooth, such was the pestle.
1t vas perfect specimen, and as such a
rare find, for il was the custom Of these
Indians, Dr. HArkness says, to break the
implements they threw in with the dead
The pestie. being the first OF its kind
found whole in this mound, was thrown up
on the bank with the eollec-
tlOU VI uuiIdu hllu OIule DODto lOuDG near
it when DR.. HarkDess and Director Davis
arrived.
DIR. Harkness though a conscientious and
enthusiastic scientist and arch80iogist at
heart. is slow to give visible signs of any
unusual interest
He glanced at the bones curiously few
moments and then said he guessed he
would have them sent to the academy by
express.
"But this" he said, picking up the stone
pestle, i will take with me"
Director Davis took several specimens of
the shells and some small particles of the
lime aud the adobe bricks found in the
soil.
Il should not be surprised to find an
adobe floor at the bottom OF this mound"
said Mr. Davis.
In this opinion DIR. Harkness concurred
These sheli-heaps covering these mounds
are not Identical with the Dutch and
Danish Kitchen Middens, as many sup
pose" said the doctor
The Kitchen Middens were the work
or rather the refuse-of the Mound
Builders. race antedating the Indians by
many centuries.
This is simply an Indian mound. as
IHE CALL has characterized il, but, though
very interesting, its relics are not so much
Of scientific value as OF antiquarian in
terest"
Later in the day the skull above described
was unearthed, ana with it almost COM
piete human skeleton