Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
The next data on the western Eskimo skull are in rather unsatisfactory
condition. They are those of Boas. In his report on the "Anthropologie
der nordamerikanischen Indianer,"[117] Doctor Boas mentions the cranial
index of the Alaska Eskimo to average _77_; and on page 397 he reports
the same index as secured on 37 "Alaska Eskimo" skulls, apparently of
both sexes. The only note relating to these figures is found on page
393, where it is stated that these results proceed from measurements
that had been made for the author at the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, the
American Museum, New York, the Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia, and
the United States Army Medical Museum, Washington; and that he utilized
also the measurements of Barnard Davis and Otis. On 22 of the above
western Eskimo skulls there is also given the length-height index of
_76.6_. There is no information as to either sex or locality. There are
no other measurements.
Deniker (1901) and later Martin (1914) repeat the data given by Boas.
In 1890 Tarenetzky[118] publishes measurements and observations on four
Koniag (Kodiak) skulls and one Oglemute (Aglegmute, Alaska Peninsula).
The main measurements (pp. 70-71) are:
-----------------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+----------
Koneage[119]Koneage|Koneage|Koneage|Means[120]
| | | | | of the | Aglegm-
| | | | |four from| jute
| | | | | Kodiak | (Alaska
| | | | | Island |Peninsula)
-----------------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+----------
Skull: | | | | | |
Length | 17.1 | 16.4 | 17.2 | 16.8 | 16.88 | 19.0
Breadth | 13.8 | 15.7 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 14.93 | 13.7
Height | 13.1 | 14.4 | 14.0 | 13.2 | 13.68 | 14.1
Cranial index| _80.7_ | _95.7_| _91.8_| _85.7_| _88.4_ | _72.1_
Nose: | | | | | |
Length | 4.7 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.40 | 5.8
Breadth | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.45 | 2.3
Nasal index | _51.0_ | _47.1_| _46.6_| _39.0_| _45.4_ | _39.6_
Orbital index| _87.5_ | _97.6_| _92.7_| _80.9_| _89.7_ | _88.1_
-----------------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+----------
In 1900 Sergi[121] reports on four Kodiak skulls that he examined in
Paris. Two of these are probably Aleut (or Indian). The cranial indices
were, respectively, _75.8_, _78.3_, _88_, and _88.2_.
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