[83] _Beard._--"The old men had a few gray hairs on their chins, but the young ones, though grown up, were beardless."--Beechey's Voy., I, 322. "The possession of a beard is very rare, but a slight mustache is not infrequent."--Seemann's Voy. _Herald_, II, 51. "As the men grow old they have more hair on the face than red Indians."--Richardson's Nar., I, 343. "Generally an absence of beard and whiskers."--Armstrong's Nar., p. 193. "Beard is universally wanting."--Kotzebue's Voy., I, 252. "The young men have little beard, but some of the old ones have a tolerable show of long, gray hairs on the upper lip and chin."--Richardson's Pol. Reg., p. 303. "All have beards."--Bell's Geography, V, 294. Kirby affirms that in Alaska "many of them have a profusion of whiskers and beard."--Smiths. Report, 1864, p. 416. [84] Simpson, John, Observations on the Western Eskimo and the Country They Inhabit. _In_ A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology, Pres. by the Roy. Geogr. Soc., London, 1875, pp. 238-246. [85] Dall, W. H., Tribes of the Extreme Northwest. Contribution to North American Ethnology, I, Washington, 1877. [86] Hooper, C. L., Report of cruise of the revenue steamer _Corwin_, 1881. Washington, 1884, p. 101. [87] Ray, P. H., Ethnographic sketch of the natives. Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska. Washington, 1885. [88] Murdoch, J., Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition. Ninth Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethn., 1887-88, pp. 33-39, Washington, 1892. [89] Murdoch, J., Dress and physique of the Point Barrow Eskimos. Popul. Sci. Month., Dec., 1890, 222-223. [90] Kelly, J. W., Arctic Eskimos in Alaska and Siberia. Revised and edited by Sheldon Jackson. Bull. No. 3, Soc. Alaskan Nat. Hist. and Ethnol., Sitka, 1890, p. 15. [91] Nelson, Edward W., The Eskimo about Bering Strait. Eighteenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., Washington, 1900, pp. 26-29. [92] Jackson, Sheldon, Our barbarous Eskimos in northern Alaska. The Metropol. Mag., Vol. XXII, New York, June, 1905, pp. 257-271. [93] Either a bad misprint or bad error.--A. H. [94] Hawkes, Ernest William, Skeletal measurements and observations of the Point Barrow Eskimo, with comparisons with other Eskimo groups. Am. Anthrop., n. s. XVIII, No. 2, pp. 206-207, Lancaster, 1916. [95] Jenness, D., Physical characteristics of the Copper Eskimos. Rept. Canad. Arct. Exp. 1913-1918. Ottawa, 1923, p. 38. OLDER ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA ON THE WESTERN ESKIMO STATURE AND OTHER MEASUREMENTS ON THE LIVING The earliest actual measurements of the living among the western Eskimo are those given in Captain Beechey's Narrative (1832, p. 226), where we read that of the Eskimo of Cape Thompson (north of Kotzebue Sound) "the tallest man was 5 feet 9 inches (175.3 centimeters), the tallest woman 5 feet 4 inches (162.6 centimeters) in height." As seen before, Beechey also stated that the stature of the Eskimo increases from the east to the west.