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chocephalous " form of his head, the skull, with its vertical sides 

 and sharp crest, often affecting a " scaphocephalous " or boat-like 

 shape. According to Dall, the cranial capacity is higher than that 

 of the red-skins. 



Both sexes are dressed very much alike. European fashions, 

 however, have already penetrated among the Greenlanders, and 

 in many districts men are now met wearing the garb of European 

 laborers, while the women deck themselves with cotton stuffs and 

 many-colored ribbons. But in winter no costume could advan- 

 tageously replace their capacious boots, sealskin pantaloons, close- 

 fitting jacket, and the amaut, or hood which "keeps baby warm/' 

 In Danish Greenland the women no longer tattoo their chin, cheeks, 

 hands, or feet, nor do they now insert variegated threads under the 

 skin, the missionaries having interdicted these " pagan " practices. 



Singing, dancing, 

 the relation of the 

 old legends, even 

 athletic games 

 among the young 

 people, were also 

 formerly sternly 

 repressed. Indul- 

 gence in strong 

 drinks is allowed 

 only once a year, 

 on the anniversa- 

 ry of the King of 

 Denmark, and the 

 royal monopoly of 

 the trade with 

 Greenland is justi- 

 fied on the ground 

 that in this way 

 the importation 

 of spirits is pre- 

 vented. 



Posses sing- 

 great natural in- 

 telligence com- 

 bined with love 

 of instruction, the Greenlanders may justly claim to be civilized. 

 The great majority read and write their mother - tongue, and 

 sing European melodies, while several speak English or Danish. 

 Nearly all the families have their little library, and read their 

 Eskimo newspaper, as well as the collections of national legends, 

 illustrated with engravings by native artists. Greenland even 





Fig. 4.— Greenland Eskimo. 



