ESKIMO AND SKR^LING 



the territory of the Eskimo. The map (below) shows his 

 present distribution and the districts where older traces of 

 him have been found. Within these limits the Eskimo 

 must have developed into what they now are. In their 

 anthropological race-characteristics, in their sealing and 

 whaling culture, and in their language they are very different 



Distribution at the present day. |:i:;^h:-:i:;l Former distribution. 

 Distribution of the Eskimo [after W. Thalbitzer, 1904] 



from all other known peoples, both in America and Asia, 

 and we must suppose that for long ages, ever since they 

 began to fit themselves for their life along the frozen shores, 

 they have lived apart, separated from others, perhaps for a 

 long time, as a small tribe. They all belong to the same 

 race; the cerebral formation, for instance, of all real Eskimo 

 from Alaska to Greenland, is remarkably homogeneous; 

 but in the far west they may have been mixed with 

 Indians and others, and in Greenland they are now mixed 

 with Europeans. They are pronouncedly dolichocephalic; 

 but have short, broad faces, and by their features and 

 appearance are easily distinguished from other neighboring 



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