Likely it's an 'unusual looking' male.
The skull found in Fieldbrook this week likely belongs to a male who was missing a front tooth, had bad teeth and a strange-looking face. He was somewhere between the age of 15 and 40, and was probably from a black and Caucasian or an American Indian and Caucasian background.
Still unknown is his name.
Humboldt County coroner Frank Jager said the examination of the skull by a Humboldt State University anthropologist was completed Thursday night.
They're pretty certain that it's a male, he said. It doesn't exhibit any female traits.
Whoever he was would have had very unusual features and possibly appeared mildly deformed, Jager said. The nose is large and not symmetrical, and the skull itself is not symmetrical, but oddly shaped, he said.
The individual also had a prominent brow, a missing incisor and bad teeth. Some teeth had been removed and became infected.
Whoever it is would have been a very unusual-looking person, Jager said. They would have stood out in a crowd.
Because the lower part of the jaw is missing, Jager said they cannot try and reconstruct what the person looked like.
For now, the coroner is comparing the skull with dental records of known missing persons, including those of a 15-year-old Blue Lake boy, Curtis Huntzinger, who disappeared in 1990.
http://www.times-standard.com/local/ci_4493505
The skull found in Fieldbrook this week likely belongs to a male who was missing a front tooth, had bad teeth and a strange-looking face. He was somewhere between the age of 15 and 40, and was probably from a black and Caucasian or an American Indian and Caucasian background.
Still unknown is his name.
Humboldt County coroner Frank Jager said the examination of the skull by a Humboldt State University anthropologist was completed Thursday night.
They're pretty certain that it's a male, he said. It doesn't exhibit any female traits.
Whoever he was would have had very unusual features and possibly appeared mildly deformed, Jager said. The nose is large and not symmetrical, and the skull itself is not symmetrical, but oddly shaped, he said.
The individual also had a prominent brow, a missing incisor and bad teeth. Some teeth had been removed and became infected.
Whoever it is would have been a very unusual-looking person, Jager said. They would have stood out in a crowd.
Because the lower part of the jaw is missing, Jager said they cannot try and reconstruct what the person looked like.
For now, the coroner is comparing the skull with dental records of known missing persons, including those of a 15-year-old Blue Lake boy, Curtis Huntzinger, who disappeared in 1990.
http://www.times-standard.com/local/ci_4493505
