Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
In 1916 E. W. Hawkes presented a thesis on the "Skeletal Measurements
and Observations on the Point Barrow Eskimo, with Comparisons from
other Eskimo Groups."[122] The number of skulls measured was 27,
of which 14 were identified as adult males, 5 adult females, 6
adolescents, and 2 infants. In addition there are measurements by Ralph
Linton of other skeletal parts than the skull of three skeletons.
The measurements, though the first taken by this author, have evidently
been taken in a painstaking manner and according to modern methods, and
are therefore of some value. An abstract of those on the adults follows:
PRINCIPAL MEASUREMENTS OF POINT BARROW CRANIA, BY HAWKES
-------------------+------------+-------------
| Males (14) | Females (5)
-------------------+------------+-------------
Vault: | |
Length | 18.91 | 17.86
Breadth | 13.73 | 13.58
Basion-bregma | |
height | 13.86 | 13.30
Cranial index | _72.65_ | _76.06_
Height-length | |
index | _73.24_ | _74.45_
Height-breadth | |
index | _100.68_ | _98.01_
Face: | |
Diam. bizygom. | |
max | 14.10 | 13.40
BF:BH | |
proportion | _102.6_ | _98.7_
Chin-nasion | (6) | (3)
height | 13.15 | 11.60
Alveolar | (14) | (5)
point-nasion | 7.42 | 6.80
Facial index, | |
total | _92.13_ | _52.48_
Facial index, | |
upper | _86.20_ | _54.05_
Nose: | |
Height | 5.66 | 5.24
Breadth | 2.30 | 2.18
Index | _40.69_ | _41.62_
Orbits: | |
Height | 3.76 | 3.59
Breadth | 4.13 | 4.05
Index | _91.3_ | _88.5_
Dental arch: | |
Length | 5.31 | 6.27
Breadth | 4.96 | 6.06
Index | _93.4_ | _96.7_
-------------------+------------+-------------
In 1923 Cameron[123] published the following data on six western Eskimo
skulls from Port Clarence, collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition:
POST CLARENCE (SEWARD PENINSULA) ESKIMO CRANIA
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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