FIG. 4 in Biological and cultural history of domesticated dogs in the Americas

FIG. 4. — Skulls of putative pre-Columbian domestic dogs at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany. Skulls are housed in the Nehring-Collection (Zoologische Sammlung der KÖniglichen Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule zu Berlin). A, "Inca dog" from Ancon (Zm 355), Peru (Nehring 1884), annotated as "Inca dog from Ancon, 1889" (as noted in the collection catalogue [1886] and as written on the actual specimen). This specimen most likely does not belong to the collection described by Nehring (1884: fig. 3) and Reiss & Stübel (1880-1886: fig. 1), which also originated from the graves in Ancon, Peru, but which are assumed to have been destroyed in the World Wars (Ueck 1961; B, C, Pre-Columbian dogs (7031 and 7013) from Puebla, Mexico, Nehring-Collection. Specimens are without present-day collection numbers. Every skull is depicted in dorsal, ventral, and lateral view (from left to right), where the lateral view of B is mirrored. B, "7031" and C, "7013" although also housed in the Nehring-Collection, were found by Prof. Seler in Berlin (as described in the collection files). In contrast to A, these apparently unpublished remains are described as "from an old grave in the district Chalchicomula, close to Jalapazco, Puebla Mexico". Further, both skulls are described as to be "surely from a time before the conquest of Mexico". Scale bar: 5 cm.