PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Vol. 94 Washington: 1944 No. 3171 



CATALOG OF HUMAN CRANIA IN THE UNITED STATES 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: NON-ESKIMO 

 PEOPLE OF THE NORTHWEST COAST, ALASKA, AND 

 SIBERIA 



By Ales IIrdliCka" 



INTRODUCTION 



The present catalog of crania is the seventh and concluding part 

 of a work describing the large and valuable collections of human skulls 

 in the United States National Museum. Its object, as that of ail the 

 previous parts, is to furnish American and other students of man with 

 reliable, detailed measurements, made by the same experienced 

 observer, using tested methods and standard instruments, as the basis 

 of future studies and the solution of anthropological problems. 



The data given herein are supplemented by those obtained by me in 

 various Russian institutions, principally the anthropological museums 

 at Leningrad and Moscow and the City Museum at Irkutsk. They 

 extend to the Indian and other non-Eskimo populations of the North- 

 west Coast of North America, Alaska (including Kodiak Island and 

 the Aleutian Islands), and Siberia. 



The extension of the catalog to the Siberian materials grew gradually 

 in urgency, for as the work progressed evidence pointed more and 

 more to northern Asia as the source of the original American Indian 

 population. Since it was of prime importance that the data be col- 

 lected and collated by the same observer and by the same methods as 

 those for the North American skulls, I made a trip to the Soviet Union, 

 including Siberia, in 1939. All possible facilities and aid were accorded 



•Dr. HrdliJka died on September 5, 1943, a few days after galley proofs of this paper were received from 

 tiie printer.— Editor. 



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