(222) Point Hope 76.0 Kotzebue Sound and Kobuk (3) River 75.4 (22) Shishmaref 74.5 (101) Point Barrow 74.1 (73) Barrow 73.5 (33) Wales 73.5 (7) Golovnin Bay [152]72.6 (52) Igloos, southwest of Barrow 69.7 _Northern and northeastern_ (7) Hudson Bay and vicinity 76.3 (9) Smith Sound 76.2 (15) Southampton Island 74.8 (15) Northern Arctic 73.6 (33) Baffin Land and vicinity 73.2 (101) Greenland 71.9 The Seward Peninsula shows sudden differences. There are a few localities along its southern coast where the cranial type belongs apparently to the Bering Sea and southern area. One site at Port Clarence was one of these. But already at Golovnin Bay, which is not far from Norton Sound and St. Michael Island, and according to the evidence of the most recent collections (Collins 1928), also at Sledge Island, there is a sudden appearance of marked dolichocrany, which is repeated at Wales, on the western extremity of the peninsula, approached at Shishmaref, the main Eskimo settlement on its northern shore, and, judging from some fragmentary material seen at the eastern end of the Salt Lake, also in the interior. The cause of this distinctive feature in the Seward Peninsula is for the present elusive. The little known territory urgently needs a thorough exploration. The distribution of the cranial index farther north along the western coast shows several points of interest. The first is the exceptional position of Point Hope, one of the oldest and most populous settlements in these regions, which by its cranial index seems to connect with the Bering Sea groups. The second is the closeness, once more, of Barrow and Point Barrow. The third and greatest is the presence, in a small cluster of old igloos 8 miles down the coast from Barrow, of a group of people that finds no counterpart in its cranial index and, as will be seen later, also in some other characteristics, in the entire western region; in fact, in the whole Eskimo territory outside of Greenland. As noted before, the size of the head in this group is also closest to that of Greenland. These peculiar facts indicate a problem that will call for separate consideration.