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These item contain 40 morphometric data cards on non-Australian Aboriginal crania from the collections of:

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, USA.
  
  
• Hamburg Museum, Germany.
  
  
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.
  
  

These data cards relate to crania from the following peoples and or places:

• Andaman Island, India.
  
  
• New Britain.
  
  
• Vedda, Sri Lanka.
  
  
• New Caledonia.
  
  
• Duan Island, Torres Straits Islands.
  
  
• Zhovkoutien, China. ['Chou-kou-Tien' crania]
  
  
• Java, Indonesia ['Ngangdong' and 'Wadjak' cranium]
  
  

The data cards are entitled 'Peabody Museum of Harvard University-Cranial Observations and Indices'. They contain the following categories of information: the Catalogue [Registry] Number; Sex; Area; Special Locality; Tribe; Observer and Age and detailed morphometric measurements. Not all these categories have been filled in. Each data card has the registry number from their respective institution.

There are a total of 40 cards which comprise of 22 data cards, 1 divider with Birdsell's annotations, 1 index card listing the 'Casts of Early Man at Harvard', 1 blank cranial card differing in format from the other, and a further 15 data cards.