TARUMAS.[163]
Locality.—Upper Essequibo.
Numbers.—400.
Measurements of a Taruma about fourteen years of age.—Height, four feet eleven inches, three-tenths; circumference of pelvis, two feet, ten inches; length of hand six inches, six-tenths; breadth of hand, three inches.
Notice of three Taruma Skulls, by Professor Owen.—"All female; two have rather more prominent foreheads than the Carib; in the third it curves backward in the same degree from the interorbital prominence: the nasal bones are broader and flatter, in other respects they closely agree with the Carib skull: one of them, a young female about fourteen, presents an abnormal elevation of the upper and right side of the frontal bone."
WAPITYAN (WAPISIANA).[163]
Locality.—The Savannahs of the Upper Rupununi, and the banks of the Parima.
Numbers.—About 400: reduced by small-pox.
Sub-tribes.—a. Atorais and Dauris; nearly extinct. Number 100. Mixed. b. Amaripas; extinct.
Notice of a Wapisiana Skull, by Professor Owen.—"The Wapisiana skull presents the ovate form, but the occiput is rather more prominent, and the prominent part more circumscribed: the interorbital space is slightly depressed, owing to the projection of the supraorbital ridges: the forehead is a little more convex than in the Carib; but the general resemblance is as close as that which usually obtains between the skulls of two individuals of the same race."