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 20 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.

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BAMBOULA SKELETONS (continued)

Tomb 19: XLVIII

Affected by disease. Hyperodosis (?) frontals. Abnormally thick forehead, depressed. Sex uncertain.

Tomb 18:1

Mediterranean type, probably slightly depressed. Male skull, very long-headed.

Tomb 6: Skeleton 2 (29.3.39, JFD)

Mediterranean type, depressed. Some hyperodosis in sternum (?) bone. (?) in spinal column deforming (?) of the spinal column.

2 people represented, one male and one female - single skull which is male. Disease on man.

Tomb 19:XLI

Female head, middle-aged, undepressed. Very typical Mediterranean, might well have been found in Sweden, but possibly higher in forehead.

Tomb 19:III

Mixture of Armenoid and Mediterranean elements. Female head - no compression. Mediterranean type the prevalent one.

Tomb 19:L

Deformed from earth pressure - otherwise probably not artificially depressed. Sex uncertain. Mediterranean type.

Tomb 19:I

Female skull, undepressed, slightly below middle age - Mediterranean type.

Tomb 19:32

Mediterranean, undepressed, rather fragmentary. Female.

Tomb 19:18

Child. Mediterranean with depression. Below 10 years.

Tomb 21:IV

Male skull, fragmentary. Mediterranean type with possibly slight deformation (artificial).

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

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