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Eskimo: Stature and mean * bicondylar length of the femur 



VOL. 91 



Group 



Western rivers and coasts and North- 

 east Bering Sea_._ — 



Seward Peninsula 



St. Lawrence Island 



Point Hope 



Igloos near Barrow. 



Barrow region 



North and northeast Alaska. 

 Greenland (all) 



Male 



Stature 



(202) 

 161.7 



(63) 

 163.3 



(13) 

 1{)(1. 5 



(51) 

 161.5 



(162) 



164.3 



(86) 



159.0 



Length 

 of femur 



(157) 

 42.09 



(66) 

 42.98 



(80) 

 42.49 



(39) 

 43. 43 



(33) 

 43.86 



(8) 

 (42. 45) 



(3) 

 (40. 80) 



Ratio 

 (F=100) 



go.o 



26.0 



} (^5. 7) 



Female 



Stature „^Sr 



(36) 

 151.0 



(28) 

 153.6 



(80) 

 154.6 



(62) 

 153.0 



(168) 



39.31 



(57) 



39.82 



(51) 

 38.82 



(13) 

 40.55 



(25) 

 40.31 



(9) 

 (40. 14) 



Ratio 

 (F=100) 



26.0 



} {26.1) 



1 Mean of the 2 sides. 



2 Inadequate numbers. 



THE CRANIAL INDEX 



The importance and stability of the cranial index and the corre- 

 sponding cephalic index have been much overrated ; nevertheless the 

 index is always of interest and help in racial studies. It is, of course, 

 only the percental relation of the cranial breadth and length, has no 

 bearing on the size of the skull, and must always be considered with 

 the height of the vault, which may completely change its significance. 

 The values of this index in the Eskimo, it was seen in the 

 General Abstract, were 70.3 to 774 in the males and 70.5 to 78.5 in 

 the females. As a rule it is somewhat higher in the females than in 

 the males, though in some of the groups the differences are small. It 

 does not, it will be seen below, harmonize wholly with territorial 

 sequence, and it presents one striking peculiarity, in the old "igloo" 

 people near Barrow. It shows the highest values along the great 

 western Alaskan rivers, along the coasts and on most of the islands 

 of the Bering Sea, and at Point Hope; also in Hudson Bay and in 

 Smith Sound, which are not given in the abstract^; it is lowest in 

 the old "igloos" near Barrow, partly about Barrow itself, in Green- 

 land, and on most of the Sew^ard Peninsula. Its means are abstracted 

 in the following table: 



' 76.3 and 76.2; see detailed tables; and detailed data in author's Anthropological Survey in Alaska, 

 46th Ann. Rep., Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pp. 259-260, 1930. 



