SCHOOL CHILDREN AT WALES] [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 33 _a_, Children, Nunivak Island. (Photo by Collins and Stewart, 1927) _b_, Adults, Nunivak Island. (Photo by Collins and Stewart, 1927)] [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 34 KING ISLAND ESKIMO: A FAMILY GROUP] [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 35 KING ISLAND NATIVE] [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 36 _a_, Young Eskimo woman, northern Bering Sea region. (Photo by Lomen Bros.) _b_, Eskimo, northern Bering Sea region. (Photo by F. H. Nowell.) A FINE FULL-BLOOD ESKIMO PAIR, NORTHERN BERING SEA REGION] [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 37 TYPICAL FULL-BLOOD ESKIMO. NORTHERN BERING SEA REGION (Photo by Lomen Bros.)] [Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 38 ELDERLY MAN, ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND (Photos by R. D. Moore, 1912. U.S.N.M.)] 1853, Seemann, vol. II, pages 49-51:[72] _The Eskimos._--By comparing the accounts transmitted by different writers we find that the various tribes, however widely separated geographically, differ but slightly from each other in appearance, manners, customs, or language. They are, however, by no means as uniform in size as might have been expected. Those inhabiting the vicinity of Norton and Kotzebue Sounds are by far the finest and tallest, while those living between Cape Lisburne and Point Barrow are, like the tribes of the eastern portions of America, much shorter in stature, and bespeak the inferiority of the districts in which they live. Both sexes are well proportioned, stout, muscular, and active. The hands and feet are small and beautifully formed, which is ascribed by some writers to their sedentary habits, but this cannot be the case, as probably no people take more exercise or are more constantly employed. Their height varies. In the southern parts some of the men are 6 feet; in the more northern there is a perceptible diminution, though by no means to the extent generally imagined. Their faces are flat, their cheek bones projecting, and their eyes small, deeply set, and, like the eyebrows, black. Their noses are broad; their ears are large, and generally lengthened by the appendage of weighty ornaments; their mouths are well formed, their lips are thin. * * *