"Latitudinal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... invariably sifts into crania under such circumstances. Immediately beneath the skull lay the greater part of a human tibia, presenting the peculiar compression known as a platycnemism to the degree of affording a latitudinal index of .512; while beneath and surrounding it lay the fragments of a large number of human bones, probably constituting an entire individual. In the second instance of this peculiar mode in cremation, the cranium ...
— An introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians • H. C. Yarrow |
