Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
[68] Kotzebue, Otto von, A voyage of discovery into the South Sea and
Bering Strait, 1815-1818, vol. 1, p. 209. London, 1821.
[69] Beechey, F. W., Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering
Strait. Philadelphia, 1832, pp. 474-476.
[70] Latham, Robert G., The varieties of man. London, 1850, pp. 290-292.
[71] Hooper, W. H., Ten months among the tents of the Tuski. London,
1853, pp. 223-224.
[72] Seemann, Berthold, Narrative of the voyage of H. M. S. _Herald_.
London, 1853, vols. I-II. On the Anthropology of Western Eskimo Land
and on the Desirability of Further Arctic Research. J. Anthrop. Soc.,
London, 1865, vol. III, p. 301.
[73] Richardson, Sir John, The Polar Regions. Edinburgh, 1861, p. 301.
[74] Dall, W. H., Alaska and Its Resources. Boston, 1870.
[75] Orarian, a term used by the author to distinguish the tribes of
Innuit, Aleutians, and Asiatic Eskimo from the natives known under the
name of Indian, in allusion to the universal coastwise distribution of
the former.
[76] Bancroft, Hubert H., The Native Races of the Pacific States. Vol.
I, New York, 1874. Wild Tribes, p. 45.
[77] _Color._--"Their complexion, if divested of its usual covering
of dirt, can hardly be called dark."--Seemann's Voy. _Herald_,
vol. II, p. 51. "In comparison with other Americans of a white
complexion."--McCulloh's Aboriginal Hist. of America, p. 20. "White
complexion, not copper coloured."--Dobb's Hudson's Bay, p. 50. "Almost
as white as Europeans."--Kalm's Travels, vol. II, p. 263. "Not darker
than that of a Portuguese."--Lyon's Journal, p. 224. "Scarcely a shade
darker than a deep brunet."--Parry's Third Voyage, p. 493. "Their
complexion is light."--Dall's Alaska, p. 381. "Eyewitnesses agree in
their superior lightness of complexion over the Chinooks."--Pickering's
Races of Man, U. S. Ex. Ex., IX, 28. At Coppermine River they are "of
a dirty copper color; some of the women, however, are more fair and
ruddy."--Hearne's Travels, p. 166. "Considerably fairer than the Indian
tribes."--Simpson's Nar., p. 110. At Cape Bathurst "the complexion
is swarthy, chiefly, I think, from exposure and the accumulation of
dirt."--Armstrong's Nar., p. 192. "Show little of the copper color of
the Red Indians."--Richardson's Pol. Reg., p. 303. "From exposure to
weather they become dark after manhood."--Richardson's Nar., I, 343.
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