The data that it is now possible to present may perhaps throw a new light on the matter. As was already seen in part from the data on the living, the head resp. the skull tends to relative shortness and broadness throughout the southwestern, midwestern, and Bering Sea region (excepting parts of the Seward Peninsula). Important groups in this region, particularly those on some of the islands, had little or no contact with the Indian. The cranial index in most of the groups of the southwestern and midwestern Eskimo equals or even exceeds that of the Indian. And Eskimo groups with a relatively elevated cranial index are met with even in the far north, as at Point Hope, Hudson Bay, and Smith Sound.[150] Finally, the shorter and broader head connects with that of the Asiatic Eskimo and that of the Chukchee, as well as other northeastern Asiatics.[151] The records now available show the highest cranial indices to occur on the coast between Bristol Bay and the Yukon and on lower Yukon itself, while the lowest indices of the midwest area, though still mesocranic, occur in the aggregate of Nunivak Island and the mouths of the Yukon. Another geographical as well as somatological aggregate is that of the people of the St. Lawrence and Diomede Islands and of Indian Point, Siberia, the cranial index in these three localities being identical. ESKIMO: CRANIAL INDEX Mean of both sexes ((Male+Female index)/2) on 1,281 adult skulls. IN DESCENDING ORDER _Southwestern and midwestern_ (11) Togiak 80.1 (13) Hooper Bay 79.7 (10) Mumtrak 79.6 (6) Pilot Station, Lower Yukon 79.3 (5) Chukchee (Siberia) 78.6 (26) Nelson Island 78 (6) Southwestern Alaska 77.7 (32) Indian Point (Siberia) 77.4 (12) Little Diomede Island 77.4 (299) St. Lawrence Island 77.2 (5) Port Clarence 76.6 (34) Pastolik and Yukon Delta 76.1 (14) St. Michael Island 75.7 (116) Nunivak Island 75.6 _Northwestern_