Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
(7)
Hudson Bay and vicinity 82.2
(15)
Northern Arctic 82.7
(33)
Baffin Land and vicinity 84.4
(9)
Smith Sound 85.1
(101)
Greenland 85.1
(15)
Southampton Island 85.5
The height-breadth index (H×100)/(B) of the Eskimo skull shows in
substance the same conditions as did the mean height index, but while
less informative or dependable on one side, on the other it accentuates
the relative narrowness of the skull in some of the groups.
[Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
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SKULLS FROM OLD BURIALS, POINT HOPE; RIGHT SKULL SHOWS LOW VAULT.
(U.S.N.M.)]
[Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
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SKULLS FROM OLD BURIALS, POINT HOPE; RIGHT SKULL SHOWS LOW VAULT.
(U.S.N.M.)]
ESKIMO: HEIGHT-BREADTH INDEX OF THE SKULL
MEAN OF BOTH SEXES IN ASCENDING ORDER
_Southwestern and midwestern_
(12)
Togiak 91.9
(6)
Pilot Station, Lower Yukon 92.8
(10)
Mumtrak 93.1
(5)
Chukchee 93.1
(13)
Hooper Bay 93.2
(25)
Nelson Island 93.7
(5)
Yukon Delta 94.7
(5)
Southwest Alaska 95.2
(12)
Little Diomede Island 96.3
(279)
St. Lawrence Island 96.5
(116)
Nunivak Island 96.7
(31)
Indian Point (Siberia) 96.7
(29)
Pastolik 96.8
(6)
Cape Nome and Port Clarence 97.0
(14)
St. Michael Island 98.2
_Northwestern_
(99)
Point Barrow 98.7
(69)
Barrow 98.8
(20)
Shishmaref 98.9
(216)
Point Hope 99.2
Kotzebue Sound and Kobuk (3)
River 99.6
(33)
Wales 100.3
(51)
Igloos, southwest of Barrow 105.0
_Northern and eastern_
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