Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
(6)
Pilot Station, Lower Yukon 53.6
(5)
Cape Nome and Port Clarence 54.0
(10)
Hooper Bay 54.4
(9)
Mumtrak 54.5
(93)
Nunivak Island 54.6
(262)
St. Lawrence Island 54.9
(8)
Togiak and vicinity 55.0
(24)
Indian Point (Siberia) 55.1
(23)
Nelson Island 55.2
(4)
Southwestern Alaska 55.4
(10)
St. Michael Island 55.5
(25)
Pastolik 55.7
(4)
Chukchee 55.8
(11)
Little Diomede Island 56.0
_Northwestern_
(190)
Point Hope 52.8
(2)
Kotzebue 53.7
(17)
Shishmaref 54.1
(42)
Igloos north of Barrow 54.1
(41)
Barrow 54.8
(75)
Point Barrow 55.2
(31)
Wales 55.4
_Northern and northeastern_
(9)
Smith South 51.7
(14)
Southampton Island 52.3
(23)
Baffin Land and vicinity 53.8
(90)
Greenland 54.1
(7)
Hudson Bay and vicinity 54.3
(11)
Northern Arctic 56.6
The upper facial index of the Eskimo skull is high, though there
is considerable group variation. The reason is the height of the
upper face, for which the accompanying considerable expansion of the
zygomatic arches does not fully compensate. In the white groups this
index ranges from approximately _50_ to _54_; it averages _52.9_ in
15 Algonquian and _53.1_ in 12 Siouan tribes. The means in the large
Eskimo groupings are from a little below _54_ to a little over _55_.
Its regional differences have already been mentioned. Sex differences
in the index are very small. There are a number of points of
significant agreement, the foremost of which is once more that in the
case of Barrow and Point Barrow, and especially that of the Old Igloos
near Barrow and Greenland.
THE NOSE
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