Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 3·1939–1948

Bamboula, Miscellaneous lists

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 19 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 3 (Bamboula, Miscellaneous lists), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 40

COMMENTS ON BAMBOULA SKELETONS (found in private papers of G.H.McFadden and possibly representing conversation with Professor Carl Herman Hjortsjo,M.D., Director of the Anatomical Institute, Biskopsgaten 7, Lund, Sweden)

Tomb 19: XLVII Compressed male skull, broad in front. Originally probably long-headed - made broader by compression in obtal(?) region.

Tomb 19: XXVII Basic Mediterranean type which might be from Sweden today.

Tomb 19: XLIII Same.

Tomb 5: Skull 3 Male, compressed in same way. Basically before compression most probably a Mediterranean type.

Tomb 19: XXXI Basically Mediterranean uncompressed female skull.

Tomb 18: V Male skull. Basically Mediterranean with slight depression making it more Armenoid.

Tomb 19 Male skull. Basic Mediterranean without any compression. Old male.

Tomb 19: XXXIV Male, Mediterranean type, old.

Tomb 21:1 Basic Mediterranean but also something else in it. Not characteristic of Cypriot. Young girl about 25 years of age. Not at all depressed.

Handwritten: copy to L Angel

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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