Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
Some additional points of interest appear when the basion-nasion:
skull-length index, taken collectively for the two sexes, is compared
in the different groups. All these comparisons suffer, naturally,
from unevenness and often insufficiency of the numbers of specimens,
yet some of the results are very harmonious with those brought out
repeatedly by other data. Thus the St. Lawrence material stands once
more close to the medium of the southwestern and midwestern groups;
Barrow and Point Barrow are almost identical; and so are the Old Igloos
from near Barrow and Greenland. The St. Michael islanders show very
favorably in the midwest, the Shishmarefs in the northwest and the
Southampton islanders in the northeast.
ESKIMO SKULLS: BASION-NASION LINE IN RELATION TO SKULL LENGTH
(BN×100/SL)
BOTH SEXES TOGETHER IN ASCENDING ORDER
_Southwestern and midwestern_
(5)
Chukchee 54.8
(6)
Pilot Station, Lower Yukon 55.2
(11)
Little Diomede Island 55.6
(24)
Nelson Island 55.9
(115)
Nunivak Island 56.0
(10)
Mumtrak 56.1
(279)
St. Lawrence Island 56.2
(5)
Southwestern Alaska 56.2
(29)
Pastolik 56.4
(10)
Togiak 56.5
(31)
Indian Point and vicinity
(Siberia) 56.5
(13)
Hooper Bay 56.6
(14)
St. Michael Island 56.8
_Northwestern_
(51)
Igloos southwest of Barrow 55.9
(99)
Point Barrow 55.9
(69)
Barrow 56.1
(34)
Wales 56.1
(215)
Point Hope 57.0
(20)
Shishmaref 57.1
_Northern and northeastern_
(33)
Baffin Land and vicinity 55.4
(10)
Northern Arctic 55.7
(7)
Hudson Bay and vicinity 56.0
(100)
Greenland 56.1
(7)
Smith Sound (male) 56.4
(14)
Southampton Island 57.1
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